On my first computer programmer job, about 2 months in, they took all the younger IT staff (MIS back then) and had us empty a large closet. It was filled of boxes of programs. Yes, programs as they were on punch cards. The oldest programmer looked kind of teary eye as us kids were laughing and dumping this old stuff.
There was also a card sorter for when some hapless Operator accidentally dropped a box or stack of cards.
I did come up in the era of reel tapes still being used however. Huge racks of tapes in the computer room storing all kinds of sales data.