A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958 by Berenice Abbott.

@Budwick very interesting

@Zenbra Back when the Earth was cooling LOL and I was learning programming - programs were written on IBM punch cards. You needed a giant stack even for simple programs.

@Budwick IBM mainframes and COBOL

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@Budwick the early years, now we have too much memory

@Budwick Missed the punch card era but not by much. Terminals were in use though. Intro to Computer Science I took in junior college was fun until the end when you had to compile matrix manipulation Pascal code on the HP1000 and it took like 45 minutes to compile. Taught me to write solid code initially, or try to! I can image the fun debugging a program on punch cards.

@rfatoday computer science has developed to minutes of compiling pascal code nowadays

@Zenbra Indeed. At 68 I still have Visual Studio on my home workstation and dabble with C#. Pascal is a wee bit outdated although I do wonder if any Pascal code is still maintained.

@rfatoday There is a visual Pascal called Delphi. I wonder is it still maintained. I used it one or twice