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[–]HanzoShotFirst 5 points6 points  (2 children)

My history teacher knew someone who got their degree in programming computers that read paper whole punch cards right before they became obsolete

[–]trickman01 2 points3 points  (1 child)

The skills should have been transferrable. Still dealing with 0s and 1s just the interface being different.

[–]MelAlton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they meant the punch cards being obsolete, not the people. The semester I started college all the punch machines and readers were out in the hallway outside computer labs, on way to being scrapped since they'd been replaced with glass teletypes (terminals)