Pascal was def taught in the USA univs in the late 80s’ early 90s (ask me how I know). Maybe it could linger into the later 90s or maybe UK was just different from the USA which was very much web-cray-cray by then.

I think he’s just off on the puncher. Gotta stick those class handouts into binders dontcha know.

Computer punchcards were dead dead dead by the early 80s and that might be optimistic. A fun activity for grad students was finding professors’s boxes of punchcards from their 1970s PhD dissertations, looking at them, then putting them haphazardly back not knowing they were once in a very specific order…

Not that they would ever be used again…