@ACAElliott Punchcards or bust?
@GreenSkyOverMe @ACAElliott 
I actually had to learn and code punchcard assembler (IBM 360 series, running OS/360!!) when I went to "computer school."
Paper tape, too.
I've never used it since, nor do I remember anything other than the tedium, and the litter. Much cardboard, and much confetti.
#FBPE @BlippyTheWonderSlug @GreenSkyOverMe @ACAElliott The best bit is when the box of punched cards falls off the back of your bicycle and distributes themselves along a mud-filled gutter.
Boxes of punched cards were where storage was at for students, you didn't get any useful quantities of actual disk space.
@TimWardCam @BlippyTheWonderSlug @GreenSkyOverMe
Yep. I coded in FORTRAN and the dropped deck happened more than once.
A friend coded in BASIC where the compiler/interpreter(?) would first sort the input by line number, so his code could survive a deck shuffle!
@ACAElliott @TimWardCam @BlippyTheWonderSlug Oh, that’s what the line numbers were for! (Besides GOTO)