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JohnKn 
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 Posted: 13 May 2004 at 12:43pm |
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Pen and paper for an old TSR-80 computer with no hard drive. Programs
could be saved on a cassete tape, but had to be coded somewhere first.
There were entire books of hardcopy programs that you would enter in
manually to run.
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validweb
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Posted: 14 May 2004 at 9:13pm |
My code....I print out my current code, and modify it anywhere I go.
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zMaestro
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Posted: 15 May 2004 at 1:11am |
 pmormr wrote:
curious how desperate people have gotten... (and yes i do remember what happened to my last poll i started) |
now about 25,000 view, and 2,400 reply..
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Bluefrog
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Posted: 15 May 2004 at 10:23am |
I code on with pencil and paper all the time. Mostly just pseudo-code, but sometimes full out.
And I print code to proof read as well. You just simply cannot proof something on screen like you can with paper. Especially for very long routines that span pages. The split screen thing helps, but not a lot when you need to see half a dozen spots at 1 time across as many pages.
A few quick circles and notes, and I'm ready to get back to the computer.
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ctscott
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Posted: 16 May 2004 at 5:46pm |
nothing like using pencil and paper to code a program so you can sit down at the keypunch machine to create your card deck so you can feed them into the card reader to compile your program. 
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Posted: 16 May 2004 at 10:06pm |
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i've never had the experience of using a card reader to write programs... too young
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Posted: 16 May 2004 at 10:41pm |
ctscott wrote:
nothing like using pencil and paper to code a program so you can sit down at the keypunch machine to create your card deck so you can feed them into the card reader to compile your program. |
Just make sure you don't cross hands!
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Posted: 17 May 2004 at 1:21pm |
or drop the card deck.  
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