>>Just the whole idea of punch cards brings up horrible memories of my first computer science college course in 1980. They are so 20th century! [even though, technically, this is the last year of the 20th century] *bg*
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>You should have said "Mid 20th century". When I was attending NTSU in 1990, my assembler programming class used punch cards. I still have nightmares about that class.

When I attended NTSU (in the apex of the Metroplex) in 1978 we used punch cards. I remember many an hour in the keypunch rooms and dropped decks on the way to the computer room. Not to mention all the chads (only we called it garbage).

The only problem with going with PCs would be that the software would be written or run on something written by Microsoft and Gore could then demand a hand debug of the operating system because of The Lawsuit.