Basic.
I did computer studies at 'O' level (1980) and we had to fill in dots on a card with a pencil to write code in Basic.

1 card made 1 line of code. A "For and Next" statement took about half an hour of filling in dots on cards and half a rubber.

Then it got sent to the local Poly to be "run".

Invariably one week later it would come back saying "Syntax Error".

Fuck socks.
( Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 9:45, 10 replies)

Basic.
Takes me back. Although we did have a steam powered BBCmachine, on which it was just possible to program Asteroids.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 14 Aug 2009, 9:54, closed)

Our network
was in the Computer Lab, a load of BBC's linked together. *.remoteall could be fun.
(kitescreech still here, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 10:04, closed)

BBC's
ahhh the old BBC network in the 'computer lab'

10 PRINT "MR PARKER IS A JOEY"
20 GOTO 10

ahhhhh those and 'pokes' on the front of 'Your Sinclair' were my first forrays into programming!
(TheManofScience, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 10:42, closed)

Beepy noise
POKE 23609,255

,,,how sad am I? ;-)
(superscape blames it on the bogie, Sat 15 Aug 2009, 19:48, closed)

^this...
FTW.
(EffinDoubt is breaking glass on, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 9:29, closed)

Ahh, those horrible red on white punch cards...
There were a few cards the teacher would use at the start and end of the whole batch of cards, signifying the school name and maximum number of loops you could do, etc.
We put an End/Start sequence in our program, and renamed the schools header sheet from Beauchamps to Beauchumps.
My first taste of hacking!
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 14:23, closed)

BASIC?
You were lucky.

300 lines of COBOL, each line on a punched card, to print a report with list of all the first division football teams on it sorted by points.

And then the stack of punched cards falls out of your bag on the bus.
(Super Jet Shoes, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 15:40, closed)

My father fondly recalled this one recently...
Was chatting about some ww2-era cryptography and he remembered that one day, while attending university, he'd seen a street basically covered in white punch cards.

Obviously someone's massive project had been been carried along in a box, they'd tripped and sent the cardset fucking *everywhere*. An entire two-lane street and sidewalk wound up looking like there'd been a freak snowstorm.

Gotta laugh...
(Scritty Bakerman., Sat 15 Aug 2009, 9:01, closed)

Oh how I remember...
building a star trek video game using those cards in 1977.
(OMG-Hilarious, Sat 15 Aug 2009, 12:48, closed)

^this...
Full of Fail.
(EffinDoubt is breaking glass on, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 9:31, closed)