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Programming with Punched Cards - Columbia
- 1 - Programming with Punched Cards 2005 Dale Fisk. All rights reserved It must have been about 1973. Life at IBM was good, and I was busy doing whatever it is that engineers did then. Suddenly, in the life of our project, something came up that called for a computer program that did not exist, and I was asked to create it. My boss knew I d never written a program before; not unusual since in those days there were very few engineers who knew how to program. I m sure he thought about asking a real programmer to do the job. Maybe he couldn t find anyone available. Or maybe he decided the program would be so technically involved that it would be easier for an engineer to learn how to program than it would be for a programmer to learn how to be an engineer.
- 2 - to the size of a program. More than one box was awkward for a guy (or gal – we had lots of women programmers) to carry around. One full box was pretty heavy; more than one
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