I was having a clear out at the weekend and came across these. The very first code I ever wrote was in Algol 68 using these bad boys. Anyone else remember these?

@speakjava Yes! I still have my first COBOL program on microfiche

@speakjava I have some on my drawer! Never actually used them, but would love to.

@speakjava I used these in high school. First year uni was mac plus.

@speakjava I used dumb terminals in High School. I didn't "get" to use punch cards until I got to college (true story)!

@speakjava does typing pages and pages of machine code from magazine count? it never worked either without fixing it.

@speakjava Heh; that is before my time. Oh; a Java Champion. I was the last of the netscape.devs.java Champions. Hi from Cowtown.

@speakjava Actually, this was where I wrote my first code, in Fortran IV...

@speakjava I remember the Green cards at the front of your deck. They were 5 or 10 dollar bills that got your deck ran first.

@speakjava Never used, but I still have one. I found it in an old office and the colleagues told me a lot of stories about they programmed with them. Fascinating.

@speakjava Computer course in high school in the 70s 😃

@speakjava Yes, at university around 1985, but I showed the prof. how easily he could check programming tasks with the Sharp PC-1401 and the data command. He was excited. My first prog. was a binary with the NCR 446 and a little help from my dad, 1969. CPU did not have a multiply instruc.

@speakjava Yup, me, it was AlgolW for me though 🤓

@speakjava 🙋‍♂️🤓

@speakjava I'm actively sourcing them, am slowly running out, only a couple hundred left now! They're still very useful for ... reasons :). If anybody still has a box somewhere, let me know, please!

@speakjava I'm guilty!

@speakjava Saw these and know how it works but never used them. Lerned COBOL though ... so, I am kind of old I guess? 😉

@speakjava I used Fortran 4 for mine