>>Yes, it was a fun article. I missed punch cards. They had phased them out at Ga. Tech when I got there, but they still had some of the equipment around. Probably had a few programs here and there that were loaded that way. I guess my first programming class at Tech was on a HP 3000 minicomputer with dumb terminals. I had already been programming in BASIC on an Apple II+ in high school. Things are just a tad different now.
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>A colleague of mine was the IT boss in a construction company in 1986... when they bought a punch card reader (we sold her a PDP a couple of years later, though). The programmers found it hilarious and coded a huge printout, maybe 5m long, saying "With card reader into the XXI century" which they nailed to the wall above their desks. She somehow didn't think it was funny.

Some people just don't have a sense of humor.