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So a US Green Card is half way to the moon? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So is the code, like, punchcards? Or is it actual hand written text?

[–] coffeetastesbadlikecoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I am remembering right it is Hand written and then someone takes the code and charges the Individual memory cells acording to the code.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Damn, so someone sat down and encoded each line of assembly (I assume?) into machine code. Manual assembling and linking. Early years of computing was on a whole other level.