Apr 24
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Data Storage: A Quick Picture History

See how far we’ve come and how blessed we are here. It is fun to see the data punch cards; I learned FORTRAN programming with them in college many years ago. They were a challenge. One line of programming per card and they must be in the correct order or there was no hope of a good program run. Batch runs were ready every morning so I couldn’t know if it worked until the next day.

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Author: lynn

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Piyush
April 24, 2008

I am a textile engineer and those cards have evolved from the punch cards used for creating jacquard designs on weaving looms.

FORTRAN = FORmula TRANslation :)

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