>
>When I took COBOL a few years later, we again used keypunches. This time
>we took our deck of cards over to the machine, dropped them in the reader,
>and pushed start. Results (error messages) back in seconds! The instructor
>in that class was fun. We'd take him our programs asking for help. He'd
>say "Gee, sure glad it's YOUR problem!"

I did a little time with cards way back when.
Mostly I worked on the decwriter. A very nice terminal, though these days unbearably clunky.  I found one up in the math department that apparently hadn't been used in months (the paper in the machine had a very old date still printed on it) so I used that one a lot, rather than the lab where we had to book time, and it was always crowded.

I worked with an ASR33, punching paper tape for a bank for a while, what a PITA that was.. Chugga-Chugga-chugga for hours.. :-P

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