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>>>>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).
>Nice to hear from you.
>I hope you're feeling well and enjoying that Fl weather we envy up here after Thanksgiving.
Everything is going good. I've been "lurking" but too busy to say much. We had about 20 guests for Thanksgiving. The weather has been nice but the temp did get down to 38° F so I have had enough of winter.
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