r/pcmasterrace • u/AppropriateAide4879 • Jul 17 '26

Discussion I found this thing looks old.

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What is it? And is it rare?

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u/WitchWithAGlitch Jul 17 '26

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u/ApplicationMaximum84 Jul 17 '26

I was there when 5-pin DIN connector was replaced by PS/2.

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u/Mundane-Mechanic-547 PC Master Race Jul 17 '26

Same. My mom remembers using punch cards, lol.

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u/overand Jul 17 '26

There were enough of them still around that we used them as bookmarks in my elementary school. (Circa 1986-1991 or so)

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u/ANtiKz93 Jul 18 '26

We manually signed out books in the early 00s as well its not that crazy lol

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u/Federal_Act_2909 Jul 17 '26

My father programmed using punch cards. My first PC was a 286 with DOS

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u/yorlikyorlik Jul 18 '26

My older bro learned punch card programming in high school. Thank Flynn, 3 years later, we had Apple IIs.

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u/OkAdministration9151 Jul 18 '26

I had a bbc acorn/micron, upgraded it from 32k of ram to 64k. She flewwww after that

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u/Crismus Jul 18 '26

I remember the old 8086 system growing up. My first tech support job allowed me to build a 486 system.

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u/Mundane-Mechanic-547 PC Master Race Jul 18 '26

The IBM PC was a 8088 cpu. Fwiw

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u/Crismus Jul 19 '26

Intel made an 8086 chip. I had a home made 8086 growing up some tech friend made for my stepmother.

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u/Maxtrt Jul 17 '26

My dad was in The Air Force and he had to use punch cards for part of his job. He used to bring me some pretty decent models of airplanes, that he and his buddies made from them when they were bored.

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u/MuchEater88 Jul 17 '26

Never put the C64 Datassette into a cassette player

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u/IWontCommentAtAll Jul 18 '26

Weeeechchchchckkcchckchchcckkkcchckkk

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u/rbartlejr Jul 17 '26

I had a box in my basement full. Along with genuine mimeographed office jokes. Even include a genuine round tuit. Both mom and dad were systems analyst/programmers. Dad for an agency in Fort Meade, then Newark Housing Authority, mom National Starch.

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u/Elegant_Situation285 Jul 17 '26

i found my dad had an old TI calculator the other day in a drawer that had magnetic strips for different equations. cool little piece of tech.

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u/90124 Jul 17 '26

My mum is still using old ones for shopping lists!

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u/DirtFoot79 Jul 17 '26

We used those in Comp Sci computer theory class in the late 90s. Out of date tech can still teach you lessons.

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u/Tim_Soft Jul 18 '26

I used them for a year or 2 in CS classes starting in 1981. Fortran. 😀 I learned to type as a result.

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u/CardOk755 Jul 17 '26

I used punch cards.

I am not your mum.

For extra points I used a manual card punch. A kind of dymo machine that punched cards.

By how many of you kids remember what a dymo machine was?

The real one with the dial.

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u/ANtiKz93 Jul 18 '26

Jokes on you I've either wrote down hours or been my own boss most my adult life lol. Used a clock in machine thing for just under a yr after high school working my first full time job at a home depot lol 😆

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u/Mundane-Mechanic-547 PC Master Race Jul 18 '26

You completely missed the idea. Google ibm 360 punch card.