Wow this is a total derailment topic 
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Sorry, I just noticed. Ask me about how a thread gets silent
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if there are any (nationalistic) Greek folks on the forum, they’ll be happy to explain. Although to them it’s still the republic of Skopje probably. Coming close to politics here so I better watch out what I say.
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Jeez, I need to have a look at a modern day map.!..
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I’m rising through the ranks, imma be chasing your position 
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I was traumatised by SPSS during my uni years, already computer era. Can’t even imagine doing that with punch cards 
You must be a god of some sort LOL 
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Ah punch cards!! Remember computer rooms? Mainframes? I used to love the first computer games…and writing them in ASCII…then DOS…if not, then…ha!
<Turn left
>You see a sword
<Pick up the sword
>A troll appears
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In case I dropped the box of cards, I penciled on the card # on each one!
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Haha.
However, I do have a goal for the next 6 months: flag, mute, ignore
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@SassyRocks and @SinceIAwoke does all this babble predate the Commodore 64? The card catalogue at the library?
And how is this the hottest thread going?
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Drama nonsense drama nonsense…
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If you keep a shirt/top on, it’ll be fine, no flags required
I had a RadioShack TRS 80, with no monitor ( it hooked up to the TV) and a cassette tape drive for programs. Around the same time, I started university and my card punch studies.
When I was teaching computer applications, we used the library card catalog as our example for database programming! 
It is an excellent and simple example of how to set up a relational, normalized third form system. EF Codd was our hero.
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Ahhhhh…Those were the days! The volume in those rooms!
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Lol, yes, before the Commodore.
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I love it! Confession: attempts to draw boundaries with my sibs started when I card-catalogued my bookshelf at home in grade school. They were older, so didn’t care, but still!
And our Gr.6 class was the first in the city to take a weekly trip to the university to see the computer in a room there - and apparently we wrote a program that counted from 1-10, but mostly I liked the blinking square cursor and wanted to play pong…
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lol! lord yes!
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Hi Beth. I love you. That is all.
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Meh. I beg to differ
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