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jakeSilver badge
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Re: If You Don't Patch Your Devices/Software, You're Begging For It
"When I first got into computing there was no such thing as patching"

You must be very old indeed ... Here's a photo of a patched Harvard Mk I program tape that has been patched:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Harvard_Mark_I_program_tape.agr.jpg

One of the first jobs I had in computing partially involved physically cutting paper tape at the correct point(s), and then taping in either more code, or corrected code, or both, or occasionally undamaged paper with the original code after the tape got "eaten" by the machinery. The bits that got taped in were usually hand-punched. Yes, it was called "patching", for what I hope are obvious. //

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that one in the cornerSilver badge
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Re: If You Don't Patch Your Devices/Software, You're Begging For It
Jacquard loom cards: sew them up in a different order to patch the pattern on the patch of material.