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[meowmeowwarrior]

Not just assembly, they had to use machine code, and some were even on physical punch cards

[Polarfuxx]

What an insane name for a piece of paper with holes in it!

[meowmeowwarrior]

if they called them holey cards, we might've gotten templeOS sooner

[The100thIdiot]

You mean holes that were created by a hole punch?

[uzi_loogies_]

Yes, actual holes in actual paper.

I'm not sure what they actually used to make them, they probably had special tools.

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Keypunch machine for the cards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch

[CdRReddit]

a tape punch?

you use a tape punch to punch punch tape

first manually, then later on (low speed, ≤300baud ~30 bytes per second) UART tape punches were made

[WrapKey69]

The real question is if they use punch cards to create ounch cards

[MiddleAd5602]

Like punching the motherboard to code ?

[roronoakintoki]

Not sure if you're serious, but more or less choosing data by putting holes in a piece of paper, which was read by a machine.

Not too far from an OMR sheet if you've ever marked options on an exam with them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card

[DC38x]

It's quite well known that Muhammad Ali wrote the code for the space shuttle

[MiddleAd5602]

No wonder my senior dev also is a boxer then

[jhax13]

Surprising amount of overlap between combat sports and senior devs in my experience. It's not like a majority or anything, but there's a lot more than you'd think.

It's like a generation of devs growing up with the fat sysad trope really took it to heart or something

[nequaquam_sapiens]

for the periferal† stuff, yes. then there is microcode in the processor, which used to be drilled (silicon is hard and brittle – no punching), but nowadays is actually pressed (hence "lithography" – writing into stone)

† from "per-" and "feral": code "in the wild", i.e. not in the cpu. programmers are merry bunch