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Time have certainly changed I remember standing sorting punched cards into sequence, just to run the computer back in the early sixties when I worked for AEI & if one was out of order it would stop, we had to change plugged programmed boards for each application,not to mention their size. We processed accounts for all of Australia, they were flown in from the states & delivered by courier.

SteveW wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 12:13 am What about when it was one disk in to start the computer, swap it to run a word processor, then swap it again to save the data. Seemed good in 1985.

My first Mac was much more advanced than that...
The 400kb boot disk also contained the WP program (Zardax, later bought by a bloque who owned a startup called Microsoft) AND the disk still had enough space to save your document (singular... if you wanted to file the data version rather than a hard copy, you had to switch disks).