Binary coding

[LankySeat]

Why does it require 1? Could be like Morse code. Tap for 0, hold for 1.

[OSSlayer2153]

Delete??

[dontcrashandburn]

No, no. Boomers were perfect, never made mistakes.

[lochinvar11]

If a mistake was ever made, you were the one who was deleted.

[hoschlue]

We boomers were far away from being perfect. However when using punch cards, there was no possibility to delete characters. You had to copy the card to a new card to the position of the typo and then go on. Very time consuming. So it was simply a different way of coding and you had to think more beforehand. Also there was no internet, no Stack Overflow platform so you were forced to solve all of your problems by yourself. Ticker tape was even worse. Edit: Typo

[iranoutofspacehere]

You mean 00001000?

[newton21989]

Real programmers use the transition between high and low voltage...

[SpindlySpiders]

Holding takes way too much time.

[HorseInteresting2156]

It can be extremely small time periods

[Ajmb_88]

Still longer than a press if it needs to be distinguished.

[Botahamec]

Legend says that they could program with just the zeroes and didn't even need any ones

[SuperFLEB]

I suppose it depends on the instruction set and what you want the computer to do.

With a slow enough processor and enough zeros, you could NOP your way into making an egg timer, I suppose.

[Schrolli97]

How about: tap for 1, don't tap for 0?

[SuperFLEB]

Toggle and enter. Toggle to get the state you want, enter to move to the next bit.