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debesyla | on: Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”
unless they used punch cards
Sharlin | parent | next
Punch cards are still a form of digital storage, mind.
wongarsu | root | parent
Also a form of storing things on paper
accrual | root | parent
Reminds me of an old fortune cookie message or meme, something like "digital data is made from analog parts".
WalterBright | parent | next
I threw out all my punch cards. Wish I'd kept at least a listing!
genxy | root | parent
I find punch cards being used in old engineering books I buy from the 60s.

Maybe write them again?

andsoitis | parent
> unless they used punch cards

For MS-DOS?

WalterBright | root | parent
Not likely. Punch cards disappeared around the end of 1976.
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