>>>>>Just waiting for "I programmed FoxPro for punch cards"
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>>>>My first programming, back in 1968, was breaking Veldman's Hierarchical Profile Grouping Analysis into subroutines that could be on our IBM Model 30 with 8K of core memory, i.e., .wire wrapped around magnets. In Fortran. Thank goodness for the self-teaching books from IBM on same. Punch cards were the name of the game.
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>>>>That's how I came to love programming, in fact. All because of a boring class on psychological personality theorists and because I couldn't stand the thought of doing a traditional end-of-course paper.
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>>>>Hank
>>>Who can forget punch card's glory days and Florida's infamous "hanging chads" of 2000 ( and Virginia's less famous in 2018).
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>>I'll never forget the war that the hanging chads led to, for sure. And all the rest that followed.
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>I guess your German will not do, but there is a novel "Ein König für Deutschland" from Andreas Eschenbach. It deals with the 2000 election - and that the punch card problem where only the camouflage. It's more about the computers used - and it's not totally fictional. The book is full of citations of real existing papers ...
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>It would be conspiracy theory to ask why exactly this book is not translated into English. ;)

I would love to read it. I would have loved to learn German -- but being aphantasiac (search it) means I never had a chance. I tried.

As I saw it, Gore would have been a "does less harm" president. Oh well.

Hank