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Old 08-20-2017, 04:31 PM
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Dropping an IBM 029 card punch deck was not much fun either. You pretty much only did that once and then you sequenced your decks.

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Originally Posted by jnieman View Post
I first began using computers in the late 1970's. My first one was a mag card with a one line screen. I remember we would have stacks and stacks of magnetic cards that had to be kept in order and numbered with a grease pencil. I remember dropping the stack on the floor by accident and it was an unnumbered pile. I had to start the document all over again. I graduated from that to a Wang computer with a tube monitor. I remember it having an Execute key where you would type then hit execute.

I still have my original AOL account and have used it all of these years and it still works fine.