Re: RDi Birthday Celebration

I'm in my late 40's, but had an older sister who used punch cards at the local community college.

Loss of punch cards meant loss of punch card wreaths at Christmas.

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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 1:34 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi Birthday Celebration

What befuddles me (among a long list if things) is .. where did these guys see punch cards?  I am 79 years old and punch cards were in my rear view mirror.  I x-punched cards in the military but that was pretty much it.  My first computer was in 1971 and had no punch cards, although a reader was available.

1971 was 46 years ago.  If someone working today used punch cards it has to have been for a very few years and very early in their career.  Those were the days of telex, telegrams, air mail, and carbon paper.

On 12/11/2017 7:08 AM, Ken Killian wrote:

I often running into developers who LOVE PUNCH-Cards. And for some strange reason have "fond memories" of using them...

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