>We are so lucky these days. I think you are roughly, uh, as seasoned as I am and remember the old days. There were no IDEs. There were punch card decks. If you were lucky you got two turnarounds a day. If you mistyped an instruction and got an assembly error you had seriously messed up. Desk checking your code was a major pastime.

The absolute worst error you could make was to forget to put the rubber band around the deck of cards before you left to submit them to the card reader. It was a forgone conclusion you would trip and scatter the entire deck and spend hours re-sortting.