I can relate to you, Hutch. I can remember re-creating the carriage control tapes that got shredded by the central pin-feeds in the middle of the night, swapping control panels on unit-record (punch card equipment for the not-so-old) machines, multi-tasking on two card sorters (083 and 084, with different sort sequences on each), 402/403 tabulating accounting machines, and the occasional stint on a card punch to recreate a deck of header cards for a report.
It's a bummer being old. Now I did it again, stopped to think and forgot to restart.
Does anybody remember the FUBAR3 pessimizing compiler??