My father says back in the days of batch jobs it would take about a month to get a program to run, because the debug cycle was 1 day.
His secretary became an expert at reassembling stacks of punched cards when he dropped them.
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which is why one wrote a word with a magic marker on the side of the deck
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I heard once that back then they would use a marker to draw a slanted line across the p. card stack to more easily rebuild it.
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Wooooow!
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Why people preferred fortran over cobol: dropped decks half the size.
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