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waltc said:

I've got plenty more shortcuts, if you need em... There are a lot of 'em! I've got still more of them nested inside desktop folders, believe it or not! Nah, all of the shortcuts on the right are involved in a project I'm working on...the ones on the left are, more or less, the permanent group of shortcuts...I've been partial to this kind of desktop since my first Amiga in 1986/7. Old habits carried forward, I'm afraid. I'm strictly a no-Metro kind a' guy....far too much dead space for me--which is only useful for touch screens, which I also eschew (along with laptops)...

I tried to make a desktop out of 80 column cards, but all the graphic artists were busy.....

f14tomcat said:

I tried to make a desktop out of 80 column cards, but all the graphic artists were busy.....

Geez. The first programs I wrote in Fortran were on those.

- so that's what those binary digits look like..

kado897 said:

Geez. The first programs I wrote in Fortran were on those.

Excuse my ignorance.. but what are those? and how did they work?

Superfly said:

Excuse my ignorance.. but what are those? and how did they work?

What is punch card?

Superfly said:

Excuse my ignorance.. but what are those? and how did they work?

kado897 said:

What is punch card?

Think of the card reader as a Music Box for code.

f14tomcat said:

Think of the card reader as a Music Box for code.

Data too. On the first computer I worked on, an IBM 360, both our customer file and our product file were on card decks.

kado897 said:

Data too. On the first computer I worked on, an IBM 360, both our customer file and our product file were on card decks.

And on the way to the 082 Sorter, all over the floor!