where have all the keypunch operators gone, long time passing

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(07-16-2022 04:13 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  Hey Don, I still have the card I made with your manual punch at HHC 2017 hanging up in my home office! We'll see if anybody is bored enough to "translate" it.

https://i.imgur.com/SmdL0eR.jpg

In the 70s and 80s, I worked for a company that used these cards and punched many a deck in COBOL and UPG, an NCR version of IBM's Report Program Generator or RPG. We called UPG the Universal Paper Generator because it generated lots of form feeds if you put something in the wrong column.

One of our banes was a dropped deck - having to put it all back in order.

Anyway, congratulations on being a DBA.