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Dogzilla said...

My first experience programming a computer was a Honeywell in the mid-70s, using punch cards. If that wasn't bad enough, we used an IBM key punch machine, with a slightly different character set than Honeywell. I don't remember the details, but we had to substitute a few characters, for example we had to use a '&' character instead of '('. It was assumed we could write a correct program, including boundary checks like divide by zero, etc., so out grade was determined by how many times we ran the deck of cards, losing 5 points off the grade every time past the first. What fun!

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