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- 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.
a small desk. “This is a punched card interpreter.” She said. “It will put that typing you want on the top of each card.” And, a couple minutes later she returned the deck of cards to me. Sure enough, each card now had typed on the top of the card a line of text that agreed with one line from the coding sheet I …
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