I have dealt with punchcards..... or at least, the legacy of them. In a piece of commercial software written in FORTRAN that basically dated to the 1980's and took its inputs in the form of specially formatted text files that were, quite literally, punch cards but not on actual card anymore. They were even called 'punch files'.
The amazing thing is, that software still ran on Windows 7. And it did an analysis in 30 seconds on a Dell Laptop, that took a day on an NT4 machine we had lying around, and would've taken a week in the 80's when the software was first written.
It was a piece of software that rewarded wizardry, and did not tolerate fools, or Windows character encoding.
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The amazing thing is, that software still ran on Windows 7. And it did an analysis in 30 seconds on a Dell Laptop, that took a day on an NT4 machine we had lying around, and would've taken a week in the 80's when the software was first written.
It was a piece of software that rewarded wizardry, and did not tolerate fools, or Windows character encoding.
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