Ah, but you don't qualify as an "old timer" programmer if you never 
dropped a box of cards crossing a busy street between your research lab 
and the Computing Center - preferably in a rain or snow storm, and (of 
course) with a "blind punched" deck without a sequential number sort field.

Phil Rose
Monteith Masonic Library & Museum
Madison, WI

L Dewey wrote:

> Of course, 'real programmers' use COBOL and punch cards (not).
>
> -L.D.
>

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