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minus-square🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoWell, if you go back far enough you might encounter punch cards or even switches, but then again you’re not taking about modern computers anymore.
minus-squareBluewing@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoWhat’s this “back far enough” shit, I’ve used punch cards and punch tape. Fuck me I’m old.
minus-squareAnn Archy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoI run linux off an 80s cassette. The flip side is Fleetwood Mac and Deep Purple. (arch btw)
minus-square🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoTo feel really old: http://themindsetlist.com/lists/
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoClass of '99 here. There’s at least a decade between the beginning of that list and people regularly using punch cards and tape. Maybe two. Magnetic tapes and actually floppy floppy disks were the medium of choice in the interim.
minus-squareBluewing@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoThat’s funny. I have a pair of Converse tennis shoes that are 27 years older than that list…
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoYou could argue that a collection of punch cards is a file
minus-square🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoIf you put them in a physical file and it gets jostled they go out of order and you have a problem. You want them in stacks. I think technically it’s only a file when it’s managed by the system itself (reading, writing, modifying, storing) so punch cards are not files.
Well, if you go back far enough you might encounter punch cards or even switches, but then again you’re not taking about modern computers anymore.
What’s this “back far enough” shit, I’ve used punch cards and punch tape.
Fuck me I’m old.
I run linux off an 80s cassette. The flip side is Fleetwood Mac and Deep Purple.
(arch btw)
To feel really old: http://themindsetlist.com/lists/
Class of '99 here.
There’s at least a decade between the beginning of that list and people regularly using punch cards and tape. Maybe two.
Magnetic tapes and actually floppy floppy disks were the medium of choice in the interim.
That’s funny. I have a pair of Converse tennis shoes that are 27 years older than that list…
You could argue that a collection of punch cards is a file
If you put them in a physical file and it gets jostled they go out of order and you have a problem. You want them in stacks.
I think technically it’s only a file when it’s managed by the system itself (reading, writing, modifying, storing) so punch cards are not files.