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GoCubsGo

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11. I learned some FORTRAN, but no punch cards.

Reply to rickford66 (Reply #3)

Sat Jun 5, 2021, 08:40 PM

Jun 2021

Although, I did use a stats that someone else programmed on punch cards when I was in grad school. I did most of my thesis on an original Macintosh, no hard drive. You had to put the program disk in the drive, and then remove it if you wanted to save to another disk. Fortunately, it wasn't long before you could buy a secondary external drive. Pain in the ass, but still better than the punch cards and main frames.

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