On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 06:40:40 Russel Winder wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 13:26 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > [...] > > > I should have kept some of my old punchcard decks. > > I have about 7,000 Fortran cards left, they are all pristine. They are > great for shopping lists and writing reminders during meetings. I > haven't tried actually punching holes in them since 1985.
LOL. That's all I've ever used them for (born in '82). My grandfather had a data processing business back in the '70s, so he had a lot of punchcards laying around that we used for taking notes and shopping lists and the like. - Jonathan M Davis