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I was typing Hollerith cards in college, to program an IBM 360 Main Frame on campus. Desktop computers didn't even exist, yet!


For the youngsters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
Now you're showing your age!
I still have a few 8" floppies.:D
I dived into the deep-end right off the bat with a 80286 machine that had a 80287 math-coprocessor!!!
The math chip (~$300) made it so blindingly fast with spreadsheets and vector graphics that I showed it off every chance I got
:lil guy:
It didn't use the cumbersome 360K 8" disks but stored an unbelievable 1.2 MB on a new 5-1/4 HD diskette!
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Those were good times.
It looked like this:
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Today, it's not even enough to run a dam Pepsi machine:oops:
Edit: For the young people, $300 was about a week's take-home pay in 1990.
 
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