Comment on What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday
A_A@lemmy.world 2 months agoOne line of code was called a card - - if I remember correctly that was 1,000 years ago, maybe less, i’m not sure now 😆. Thanks for recalling me the 80 characters per line, fond memories, takes me way back.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, it might or not be a line of code - depends a lot on the language. It’s 80 bytes, and a byte is one character. You could have continuation cards if your line was more than 80. That wasn’t ever needed for assembly language, rarely for Fortran, but very common for COBOL.