Back in the early days of computers, you would flowchart your program, write all of the machine instruction on numbered forms, then send the forms to keypunch, where they would punch the cards. You would get back a collated stack of cards, each one having 25 rows of 80 characters (this pattern was intentionally carried over to the DOS CRT screen, by the way). At any rate, you now have an ordered stack of punch cards containing your program, and if you dropped your stack and the cards got out of order, your program was toast.At any rate, I get this mental image of someone tripping while carrying a stack of old Bloom County comics to the scanner.
Back in the early days of computers, you would flowchart your program, write all of the machine instruction on numbered forms, then send the forms to keypunch, where they would punch the cards. You would get back a collated stack of cards, each one having 25 rows of 80 characters (this pattern was intentionally carried over to the DOS CRT screen, by the way). At any rate, you now have an ordered stack of punch cards containing your program, and if you dropped your stack and the cards got out of order, your program was toast.At any rate, I get this mental image of someone tripping while carrying a stack of old Bloom County comics to the scanner.