Punched cards: One of the biggest breakthroughs in programming history

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_cards

[alexkay]

When I was a child (8-10 y) I used to collect them, my parents worked in a computer facility with lots of room-sized computers. Ah, good times... :)

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It's cool to see, in Amsterdam, some people with those music trolleys that play it using punched cards. It shows that technology sticks around for a while longer than one would expect :)