When Developers Resurrect Code They Wrote 40 Years Ago

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Back in 2004, I found a roll of punch-tape code from the 1970s in an abandoned building. I deciphered it, character by character, and found out it said: “Left one, right two …

There’s something thrilling about reviving old code, bringing it back to life so it can see the light of another era.

But I was sitting now on top of computing power I could not even imagine in 1981, and it seemed wrong to not go the modern way,” Utzig wrote.

Utzig also captures that moment of looking back in time, across a distance of 40 years, at the teenager he used to be.

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