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Originally Posted by Antonio
That reminds me of the first ever computer that I saw - I was still in school and they took us on a tour to a facility with like 10-20 computers, each of them probably weighing a ton and using that paper with the funny holes...
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You mean punch cards:
When I was in high school in the early 80's, the TRS-80 was just making its way into our school but we still had Terminals connected to an HP2000 mainfraim. One of the computer classes taught punhcards, even though we had no punchcard reader or puncher (whatever it was called). So we had to make the holes in the cards by poking it with a pencil. The teacher would then hold up the cards to the light to see if we punched the right holes or not. LAME.