Tom Horsley:
>> Ha! Punched cards! We would have thanked God for
>> punched cards! The Data General Nova in the engineering
>> lab at FAU only had an ASR-33 tty with a paper
>> tape attachment :-).

Joe Zeff:
> You have no idea how happy I am that I never needed to mess with that 
> stuff.  Still, the point is well-made: most programmers don't know how 
> to optimize code because they've always considered RAM to be an endless 
> resource.

Hmm, apart from needing a reel big enough, is there a technical limit to
how long a paper punch tape can be?

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