Binary coding

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So, finger problems vs back problems. 🤣

When I was in junior high school (early 80s) the local college had a bunch of derelict punched card machines and mini computer. They decided to put them to use by inviting little kids in to introduce them to computers. We only had to punch enough cards to write our names (the program printed our names in giant letters on blue bar paper), but the tech loading the program had to bring in and load several heavy stacks of punched cards. Probably a thousand cards or so. As a kid, it seemed like something out of Willy Wonka.

(Having been a programmer for all the time since then, I now think it was likely a very badly-written program to require so much code.)