Cards ...

About 6 ins long x 3.5 ins wide ...

Oh, then of course there was paper tape ;-)

24, used to play with punch cards when i was like 4 XD

I was your age when I was at the height of my programming abilities ...

Getting quite nostalgic now ;-)

IBM ruled the world !!!

StevePaul.. that doesn't help promote your young and hip image !

I wish I had a punch card compiler.

Don't worry Guys (and Gals) still young and hip ...

That's what comes of having 4 pan lids (2 boys and 2 girls) and a granddaughter ...

Just found this on Wikipedia about RPG (which is what I programmed in) also got a reference to punch cards ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG

By hip I assume you mean hip replacement? ;-)

There's not a lot of 'respect for your elders' going on here ;-)

We need a 31-40 year old member O.o

I'm 21.

Doesn't look so attractive that RPG thing imo :P

In fact, I never did hear about punching cards... I started programming at the age of 14... With ASP and Access DB (bleh!). Was doing publicity and advertisement at uni, just now going to start some course there over programming.

Well put is this way ...

What you take for granted on your desktop, when I was your age it filled a room !!!

Don't start me of again ;-)

PS: There was no such thing as the Internet then either !!