You guys and your new fangled magnetic media.
Oh.. we're on that subject again....

University: Punch card for FORTRAN. Batch process get your print output. Edit, shuffle and resubmit. Repeat.
First work: Papertape into a PDP-11 (and toggling the bootloader. But then we got a board with 20x16 Diodes in a matrix and an addressdecoder. Some diodes were cut and - tada! - we had a ROM address space with the papertape bootloader)
"Patching" was very real on the papertape. You cut some extra holes or used black tape to block some. (there were some tools/jigs so the holes were proper aligned)
But then things went ... well, modern like. 8" floppies, double the core to 16Kilobytes, even 24K.
