10-06-2022, 01:44 AM
I'm very fascinated to see all you here to remember the all good days of punch cards..
now I can do some questions, for the time when I wasn't yet born, but a time very interesting:
1. but had also first BASIC used punch cards?
2. what did you use to make the punch cards? Pencils? Spike? or a mechanical type machine for making holes?
3. what was the name of editor for those punch cards?
4. how big had to be a punch card of a single application?
5. how did you debug those punch cards?
...
what had brought you from a professional language like COBOL or FORTRAN to a toy language for only beginners (Beginners' All purpose Simbolic Instruction Code)?
And what do let you continue to use BASIC at the place of a professional language of programming?
Hoping to get info of a fascinated past...
thanks for time spent for answering
now I can do some questions, for the time when I wasn't yet born, but a time very interesting:
1. but had also first BASIC used punch cards?
2. what did you use to make the punch cards? Pencils? Spike? or a mechanical type machine for making holes?
3. what was the name of editor for those punch cards?
4. how big had to be a punch card of a single application?
5. how did you debug those punch cards?
...
what had brought you from a professional language like COBOL or FORTRAN to a toy language for only beginners (Beginners' All purpose Simbolic Instruction Code)?
And what do let you continue to use BASIC at the place of a professional language of programming?
Hoping to get info of a fascinated past...
thanks for time spent for answering