>>One way to "get" a fellow programmer was to pull a card out of the middle of the deck without them knowing it.
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>Evil!
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>That would have been a pretty serious stunt a few years before I started. At that time you only got one or two turnarounds a day. If you had a compile error you had screwed up, so there was a lot of desk checking before submitting a deck.

Yes , we had a one day turn around. If you had a run of errors it made coming in every morning extra intense.Did you get your pack back with a nice thick output wrapped around it (good sign) or one sheet of paper (bad sign)

I'm embarrassed to admit it but a few times I turned a job around in the post room so no one was any the wiser.