The cards also had a custom logo on them that belonged to a computer school at the time. A Hackaday card, thanks to the online card punch It is ... That’s why FORTRAN had such an intricate ...

This was the days of big iron when the term computer ... of punch cards. To be really good you had to know how to create a programming card that would let you skip through the fields on a FORTRAN ...

Over at Royal Pingdom there’s a fascinating little picture history of computer ... now remember that Fortran’s strange columnar code structure came, in part, from punch card use.

The 10,000-line Fortran program he had created was stored on thousands of punch cards. “All you needed was one card upside down, or you dropped one on the floor or a card jammed in the machine ...

When I took my first CS course as a freshman at Princeton in 1974, I had to type my Fortran programrs onto punch cards and feed the ... in a five-hour stint at the computer center, then I'd ...

When Fortran was created ... If you made a typo, you had to punch a new card and give the stack to the computer operator again. Your output came to you on a heavy pile of paper.

Initially, FORTRAN punch cards were laid out with in 80 columns ... at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of ...