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Re:Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury by kps on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:54PM (#22697885)
You were lucky to have bytes! We used to shift and mask.
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Re:Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury by CarlRJ on Thursday March 26, 2020 @05:58PM (#22698409)
Luxury. We just had one bit and we could only turn it on and off.

And it was a timesharing system, so you had to share that one bit with 13 other programmers.

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Re:Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury by mjcohen on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:13PM (#22699318)
When I started out, we had to move the electrons by hand!
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Re:Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury by lowbloodsugar on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:25PM (#22699385)
Oh we used to dream of having electrons! We used to have rotten fish dumped on us every morning and we'd use the presence of a head to indicate a true bit. Where do you think "running headless" comes from?
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