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Just the participant, a tall deck of blank IBM punch cards, and a punch. None of that fancy punch card machinery either.

Return to tradition[1].

[1] https://www.ibm.com/history/punched-card


As a notorious bastard I used to run C# code tests by giving someone a flattened windows 7 with the .net SDK installed and nothing else. Also no network connection. How the potential engineer dealt with it was interesting.

We had a couple of people shrug it off and do it in notepad and csc quite happily. They were of course hired.

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