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[Ben]

I am not even going to join this "older" discussion.  I wore out 3 chisels writing my first math assignment.  then I graduated up to slide rules, then electro mechanicals, then huge giant CDC computers < punch cards, and computer gods with white coats who solumnly took your cards, passe them thru a small window, and 1 day later, you went back and the gave you your stack of cards, and about 3 inches of green stripe paper to tell you that you had a typographical error somewhere, causing an xxp318zg error. 
After 3 days of troubleshooting< debugging of a primitive form> you tried again, but unfortunately the elastic band on your cards breaks on the long hike to the "computer center" and spreads your cards all over the hallway floor.  Go back to office and spend 1 day trying to manually read the lightly printed if printed at all information on each card to put them back into order.  yes Mar.. the good old days, when men were men and computers were junk.

[Xerces]

I am not old enough to remember the Punch Card Machines however a company I worked for had some not in use anymore.  I was around for the Comodore 64 and the Apple IIe age as well as the DOS 5.0 (Which I still have a copy of at home) pre Windows 3.1.  For a living I am programmer/project manager so I have programmed in everything from FORTRAN -> BASIC -> .Net.  Those Hayes 2400 Baud modems back in the day were the best.... (Its sad I have one of those as well....)