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Splashing out on my birthday

For old times sake, I’ve just ordered 10 blank punch cards from the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. At £6 they’re a bargain, or maybe not.I loved punch cards and the mechanically beautiful punch card machines that you used to type new cards. It was all so tactile in those days!  SUM = 0.0DO 10 I…

For old times sake, I’ve just ordered 10 blank punch cards from the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. At £6 they’re a bargain, or maybe not.
I loved punch cards and the mechanically beautiful punch card machines that you used to type new cards. It was all so tactile in those days! 
SUM = 0.0
DO 10 I = 1,100
SUM = SUM + X(I)
10 CONTINUE             <sigh>

2 responses to “Splashing out on my birthday”

  1. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    They were the size of a 1$ bill from the 1850s.

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  2. lucyspop Avatar
    lucyspop

    Thank you Roger, that may come in handy at a pub quiz someday, as in "What value dollar bill from the 1850s is the same size as an IBM punch card?"

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