Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake John Aldrich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > honestly I can't begin to imagine writting a program on punch
> > cards. seems to me that something like that would take literally forever!
> > 
> I took a class back in the early 80's on how to program in RPG. The
> funny thing was, that even though we were using terminals, we still
> had punch-card emulators and had to have everything in EXACTLY the
> right column and the right "card." Talk about annoying! :-)

Well RPG, like COBOL and FORTRAN (and many assemblers) was not free
format. 

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