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we had sudh cards in abundance in 1980s but they were without any labels like Fortran. just numbers. I think they were used for CNC machinery.
We had them in '77 at IGA head office Hudon & Deaudelin, today owned by Loblaw...) in the buying dept. I remember seeing them running on there tracks and in the back, a wall of huge computers with big wheels of recording tapes; There was a bay-window on the corridor of the computer's room were 10-12 people where typing the stores orders... I was 20 yr's old and very impressed! :-)
@redj 18 I was a kid then and I had seen them at home andeverywhere. Dad used them for creating sound speakers as a side job: they had an excellent cardboard and it was suitable to creating the cyllinders for coils in speakers. I helped Dad to glue these coils and wind the wire on them.
In Bonn I took a programming course in FORTRAN. We had to write/punch our little programs on punched cards. The punched cards were then handed over to be fed into the computer.
I started to program in 1987, but it already was a PC with DOS and diskettes. I started from GW'BASIC, then switched to assembler and C. and still write in C, with rare assembler pieces.