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throwaway16830261@alien.topB to HardwareEnglish · 2 years ago

In the bad old days we had Punchcards. How did people deal with that?

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In the bad old days we had Punchcards. How did people deal with that?

blog.computationalcomplexity.org

throwaway16830261@alien.topB to HardwareEnglish · 2 years ago
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In the fall of 1976 I started as a Freshman at SUNY Stony Brook intending to major in Math and Computer Science.  I took Honors Calculus I a...
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    How do they keep track of hourly wages now? I’m out of the loop.

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    Very slowly, painstakingly, and carefully.

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    Dave’s Garage, “Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What’s Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!” “Dave explores the IBM z16 mainframe from design to assembly and testing. What’s inside a modern IBM z16 mainframe that makes it relevant today?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouAG4vXFORc from https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage

     

    “On the persistent rumors of the programmer’s imminent demise”: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10270-023-01136-y

     

    Submitted article mirrors: https://archive.is/l7yZM , https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MXnDOtatPfcJ:blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2023/11/in-bad-old-days-we-had-punchcards-how.html

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    Same way we dealt with rotary phones, manual transmissions, paper maps and outhouses. We made do.

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