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   Benjamin Kubelsky  writes:   
      
   >When I took my first computer class at UCLA, about 1982, our first   
   >programming assignment (a program to add two numbers in the PL/C   
   >language) was on punch cards. At that time, they still sold cards in   
   >vending machines in the computer labs, but they were clearly on the way   
   >out.   
      
   PL/C! That was an interesting compiler; I once wrote a program, made a   
   typo, duplicated the card out to the typo, corrected it, and then forgot   
   to take the bad card out of the dek before I submitted it. PL/C rewrote   
   my entire program into something that ran error-free but did absolutely   
   nothing.   
      
   My high school in the 1970's had an IBM 26 keypunch. You had to   
   backspace and overstrike on a 26 to get certain characters.   
      
      
   umar   
      
      
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