Reading punched cards and tape, well i never got that far, being able to read punched tape, but i know people who probably still can do that. Until 1983 the banks in the Netherlands still used punched cards for money-transfers and bank-cheques. My first computer was a ZX81, 3.25 Mhz, 1 kilobyte of memory, no color, no hi-res graphics, no sound, program loading from tape or typing from listings (big fun, 7k of hexadecimal codes for example ^___^). It took some time before i could afford a 16KB memory. This was a time that 8" disks where still widely in use and a 5MB Harddisk was something you could not imagine how much it was.

Robert van der Veeke Basugasubasubasu Basugasubakuhaku Gasubakuhakuhaku!! "Better is the enemy of good enough." Dr. Mikoyan of the Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau.