I got in a really interesting phone conversation with a young woman last night.

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8. OMG, I remember typing out those punch cards

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then waiting for my turn to run my program, which (if it ran properly) was printed out on big sheets of green and white striped paper. When personal computers first became available you could buy them in the same section of a department store as stereo equipment. They would have demo models out that you could play with, and I amused myself by typing in this:

10 PRINT "Help, I'm trapped in a program loop!"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

And walking away. The salespeople never knew how to make it stop.