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You’re right about preprinted coding forms. I wrote a lot of code in Ryan-McFarland COBOL in the late 70’s, and used coding pads I bought at the college bookstore.

In some companies, coding forms were sent to keypunch operators. They took your input forms and punched them quickly and accurately onto 80 column punched cards for you.

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