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- Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_era comment "From the invention of computer programming languages up to the mid-1980s, many if not most computer programmers created, edited and stored their programs line by line on punched cards. The practice was nearly universal with IBM computers in the era. A punched card is a flexible write-once medium that encodes data, most commonly 80 characters. Groups or \"decks\" of cards form programs and collections of data. Users could create cards using a desk-sized keypunch with a typewriter-like keyboard.".