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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Well, if you go back far enough you might encounter punch cards or even switches, but then again you're not taking about modern computers anymore.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    What's this "back far enough" shit, I've used punch cards and punch tape.

    Fuck me I'm old.

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    Class of '99 here.

    There's at least a decade between the beginning of that list and people regularly using punch cards and tape. Maybe two.

    Magnetic tapes and actually floppy floppy disks were the medium of choice in the interim.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You could argue that a collection of punch cards is a file

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    If you put them in a physical file and it gets jostled they go out of order and you have a problem. You want them in stacks.

    I think technically it's only a file when it's managed by the system itself (reading, writing, modifying, storing) so punch cards are not files.

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