When I was a grad student, I was TA for a computer science course for non-computer science majors. This was 1981, but for some reason the University of Maryland still required the use of punch cards for some courses. I had a young lady come to me with a deck of cards that she dropped in the street. Some of the cards had been run over by cars. I took pity and told her to mark up the last printout with the changes she was going to make, and I’d accept that.
My FIL was on that ground team working on the CO2 filter problem on Apollo 13.
I also work in community theater with orchestra (opera, light opera and musicals). I’ve seen a few props land in the pit by accident. In one production, we broke the fourth wall by having an object deliberately land in the orchestra pit, and a member of the orchestra hand the prop back to one of the actors on stage.
"If your program was small, you could just put a rubber band around the cards and carry them around."
I learned real quick, you NEVER put only ONE rubber band around your cards!
When I was a grad student, I was TA for a computer science course for non-computer science majors. This was 1981, but for some reason the University of Maryland still required the use of punch cards for some courses. I had a young lady come to me with a deck of cards that she dropped in the street. Some of the cards had been run over by cars. I took pity and told her to mark up the last printout with the changes she was going to make, and I’d accept that.
My FIL was on that ground team working on the CO2 filter problem on Apollo 13.
I also work in community theater with orchestra (opera, light opera and musicals). I’ve seen a few props land in the pit by accident. In one production, we broke the fourth wall by having an object deliberately land in the orchestra pit, and a member of the orchestra hand the prop back to one of the actors on stage.
Great movie! That was one of my favorite scenes.