How do you even touch it?
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Replying to @mwichary @CheckwDavid and
very carefully. It helps that they're such low density, the drive can probably read right through dust and fingerprints, cause the bits are HUGE. Another fun thing is that they're not random-access. The data is in a spiral, so the whole disk is read from start to finish
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I would just pinch them as close to their edge as possible. Had very few failures. Could also write data to them, but on different disc from program. Load then swap.
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Replying to @CheckwDavid @Foone and
As an aside, I mostly learned BASIC back then by modifying the games in David Ahl’s book to work on P6040’s limited display and language subset. Think Lunar Lander outputting to scrolling paper tape! Burned 1 page of book trying to hold book open with a desk lamp. Hey, I was 12.
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Replying to @CheckwDavid @Foone and
Brian Fitzpatrick Retweeted Chris Espinosa
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@cdespinosa's tweetstorm earlier tonight? Check it out:https://twitter.com/cdespinosa/status/931687617787084801 …Brian Fitzpatrick added,
Chris EspinosaVerified account @cdespinosaOK, a little on my history with punched cards. In 1978 I entered UC Berkeley as a freshman, and had to take Computer Science 1: Introduction to Programming in FORTRAN. Required for all CS majors. https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/931657563103547393 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @therealfitz @Foone and
Fascinating story. I personally only intersected w punched cards at glancing angle. My dad took a college course in PL/1 and used them. Helped him submit decks. My high school still had some old class-scheduling computers using them. No real personal use, though.
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Replying to @CheckwDavid @Foone and
My dad used them at work and my house was *swimming* in them. We used them for everything, including cutting them into strips and making chains that we hung on the Christmas tree :)
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Replying to @therealfitz @CheckwDavid and
Did you ever bend and staple the short-edge corners, arrange them as a wreath, and spray paint them green and glitter them?pic.twitter.com/YpqQe8wFMk
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Replying to @cdespinosa @CheckwDavid and
Yes! Well, everything but the spray paint! Wow that takes me back.
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Replying to @therealfitz @cdespinosa and
We also made confetti eggs with the chads...until my folks discovered that--unlike punched holes, chads did, not. come. out. of. your. hair.
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Wait, what’s the difference between holes and chad?
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Replying to @mwichary @cdespinosa and
hole punches are round. chads are much smaller and rectangular
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