>>>>>>Just waiting for "I programmed FoxPro for punch cards"
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>>>>>Please help this foreigner out. Wouldn't be with punch cards?
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>>>>Unless it was an OS - so there'd be fox for dos, unix, mac and punchcards.
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>>>It's not that far. In the 80s there was a problem to transfer data between to systems on the university. (Just move to the new system). They used punched tape, because that was the device both system could use. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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>>I once revisited my old VAX, and found that the only way to transfer anything was to export it as a text file, then display it onscreen while capturing the output from Telix, the app we usually used for modem connections, and as a TTY this time. Then import from the caught text.
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>>Roundabout, but it worked.
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>So the punched tape solution was more computer like?

No value statement from me there. Just saying that at any technological level you may find yourself in a situation where you save the day with, as the proverb here says, stick and rope.