202-225-4000 v-mail still says Mccarthy. Anyways left blunt message. QUIT SENDING OUR FUCKING TAX MONEY OVERSEAS AND CHANGE THE VOICE MAIL RETARDS .
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Didn't you have PUNCH CARDS? That may have seemed technologically advanced for you in the early/mid 1970s but that is hardly what you deal with these days.
Yes! You had to feed a stack of the punch cards, you had typed, into the machine to read them. If you had a SINGLE typo, it would kill it, and of course, if you accidently dropped them and they got out of order, you were pretty screwed. A lot, perhaps most, people would use a felt tip marker to make an "X" on the edge of the stack, so if you did drop them, you could fairly easily get them back in order. Of course, that wouldn't help if you typed a "0" for an "O", or some other typo :) Later, you had the luxury of a cassette tape to store a program on :) My first computer was a Commodor 64, with the 64 meaning 64 kilobytes of memory! When my wife and I bought our first home computer in the late '80s, it had a whopping 1 MB of memory :) We later bought an additional MB for it for about $100.
Yes, we had 3 Commodores.