Hahaha... the 'good ole days'.....

I sure have lots of 'fond' memories regarding
  • an operator dropping three whole boxes of punched cards...
  • repairing punched paper tapes after the high speed paper tape reader jammed and tore the tape to shreds... scotch tape, a pin and a razor blade
  • coaxing an overheated teletype to finish reading a boot tape by spraying the reader with aerosol circuit cool to coax it along
  • reading Ampex tapes with a hand reader (some iron filings encapsulated between two thin glass sheets that you could lay over the tape and read the bits
  • hand coding the start of instruction fetches while the previous instruction was completing to take advantage of the rotational latency inherent in drum memory
  • when the computer had 16k-bytes of memory total... and we could write useful applications in that space
Hmmm.... come to think of it, maybe they weren't all so "fond"