God this thread makes me feel old.

I would love to pay to see a demonstration of these paper/punch machines
Gore you may appreciate this. The summer of my Freshman year in High School, I used to take a bus downtown to Wayne State and hang out in the computer lab. I was kind of the adopted geek kid and that summer I learned COBOL. Programs were written on coding forms, punched on to punch cards, and loaded into the computer.

You only dropped your stack of punch cards ONCE. Because there really wasn't anyway to put them back in order. It was easier to start over!