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in thread My keyboard shows this many letters:

You missed the word "write". We had to write our FORTRAN programs on coding sheets so that the keypunch operators on the IBM 029s could keypunch the cards. Keypunch operators could be cranky.

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Re^4: My keyboard shows this many letters:
by chacham (Prior) on Dec 11, 2015 at 15:08 UTC

    Keypunch operators could be cranky.

    If the Keypunch machines themselves were cranky, it would've helped their exercise regimen.

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