Quote Originally Posted by MartinLiss
When I started out programming consisted of
  • Going to the punch room
  • Typing the code line by line on Hollerith's cards
  • Carefully placing them on their edges in a long, shallow, box
  • Drawing a black line on them from the top left corner to the bottom right (in case you dropped them)
  • Adding Job Control Language cards
  • Taking the box to the computer room where another person fed the cards into the card reader
  • Returning the next day to find out what your first error was
  • Make corrections
  • Submit again
  • Find error
  • Etc., etc., adnauseum.
At least you didn't need the .NET framework installed on your machines.