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• eighty-column mind n. [IBM] The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from punched card to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet).
  It is said that these people, including (according to an old joke) the founder of IBM, will be buried `face down, 9-edge first' (the 9-edge being the bottom of the card)....
• punched card:: alt. `punch card' [techspeak] n.obs.
  The signature medium of computing's {Stone Age}, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops....
• card walloper: n. An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do stupid things like print people's paychecks.
  Compare {code grinder}. See also {{punched card}}, {eighty-column mind}....
• BITNET: /bit'net/ [acronym: Because It's Time NETwork] n.
  Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see {network, the})....
• card walloper n. An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do stupid things like print people's paychecks.
  Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind....
• No program is perfect," They said with a shrug. "The customer's happy-- What's one little bug?
  But he was determined, Then change two, then three more, The others went home....
• punched card n.obs. [techspeak] (alt. `punch card') The signature medium of computing's Stone Age, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops.
  The punched card actually predated computers considerably, originating in 1801 as a control device for mechanical looms....
• EBCDIC /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ n.
  [abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs....
• EBCDIC:: /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n.
  An alleged character set used on IBM {dinosaur}s....