I need an outlet for some nerding out, and maybe some of you do too…
following on this:
I bring you this:
From an OG Windows engineer who also enjoys things like this in his spare time:
So from Raspberry Pi to 50 Series paper launch, from feeling old because you remember paper tapes to feeling old because we’re only 2 years away from the iPhone’s 20th birthday… in your own time, go on.
Oooh, punched paper tapes, but you mustn’t forget holerith cards! I used to be able to read them to find the errors in code 
Is that because you needed to, or was this a thing akin to “member of Gen Z that likes vinyl”?
Saving code you’d typed in from a computer magazine to a C60 cassette tape and hoping it woudn’t jam
It definitely adds some perspective to consider that using a printing press was once a viable and normal way to disseminate software for people to manually recreate yet now you can write a single plain English sentence and have software write original software.
It was because I had to, back in the 90s, and that is how we had to load the program into the computer. One out of order and load it all over again!
You mean coding for dummies who’re unable to code at low level
I suspect the concept of typing in code from a paper magazine is an alien concept to many. But it was a good way to learn.
It’s more the scale of paradigm shift than the efficacy or complexity. You weren’t making an OS from a type-in just like you aren’t making a fully functioning or accurate flow simulation algorithm with an LLM.
Besides, a complete novice then could use magazines just like a complete novice now can use an LLM.
It was a very good way to learn and de-bug as not all the printed code was always correct!