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• bellinghman commented on Apple's next step
  Punched cards? Luxury! (Somewhere, I may still have my very first ever program, in Algol 60, on paper tape. It was a couple of years later I encountered cards and FORTRAN IV.)...
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Apple's next step
  Hrm, I always considered paper tape an improvement over punched cards: you could have more than 80 characters, and you didn't have to worry about ordering. It was more fragile, though, I guess. (Yes, I've used both punch cards and paper tape.)...
• bellinghman commented on Apple's next step
  More fragile, and also much harder to edit. The joy of the card stack was that you could slip one out, and repunch it. The pain was if you dropped the stack. Mind you, there were some very fast paper tape readers. I think the one at Bletchley Park can read at 9600 bps - not bad for 1940s tech. But as I encountered tape first, on an already obsoleted machine, I'll always think of it as the older technology....
• 000.cacarr commented on Apple's next step
  "This magic thing will contain the sum total of human knowledge, beautifully typeset and presented to the user in whatever way injects it into their brain with maximum efficiency." And will still be locked to craptacular iTunes, I fear......
• Charlie Stross commented on Apple's next step
  Any graphics work does, indeed, make an IPS panel very useful. On the other hand, even a cheap TN screen today is miles better than what we had to put up with in the 1990s ......