This reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon that went something like:
"What do you mean, assemblers... we did all our programming in ones and
zeros!"
"You had ones and zeros?  All we had was the letter 'O'!"

ssadams at us.ibm.com wrote:

> (And the first Yorkshireman says, "you had Hazeltine terminals!, you were
> lucky.... why when I was in school, we punch our cards with a shoemaker's
> awl." And the second Yorkshireman replied, "Cards! You had cards?  We had
> to make our own paper tape out of old copies of The Times cut into strips
> and glued together with wheat paste.  It worked OK but the grease from the
> fish and chips kept gumming up the gears."  And the third Yorkshireman
> said, "Paper! Huh! You were lucky...")