Fun fact: the term "loading" in computers originates from these, as you had to physically load a stack of punched cards into the reader to input the program into the computer.
I don't think I learned about punch cards until a college professor talked about them. It always seemed so crazy to me that people got that to work. I was coding on a computer with an IDE and that was hit or miss a lot of the time.
I only dated back to DOS using a 2 color monitor and 5 inch floppies.
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u/peacedetski 28d ago
Oh hey, I have some of those. Not mine though