RANT- Reality Check-"The Early Days of Digital Photography"

Kibo informs me that bob stated that:

wrote in
:

I did a university
computer program in the early 1960s (a Fortran course) and prepared
my program and data on punched cards. I suspect that the chances of
finding
a
computer to run that program today

With about a 5 minute download, I could compile any of the standard
flavours of FORTRAN on this machine, for free.


Yeah, but how are you going to read the punch cards?

That'd depend a lot on how many I needed to read, & how often. If I just
needed to do it once, & I'd build an optical reader from scratch, & feed
the cards by hand, (or pay a student/unemployed-person to feed them for
me).

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