On Fri, February 4, 2005 12:03 pm, Richard Tindall said: > Nick Rout wrote: > >>On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:47:43 +1300 >>Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>As far as I can recall, the computer at Nelson College was more of a >>>"status symbol" than something that was really used for educational >>>purposes. Perhaps the teacher who related that to me was just cynical. >>> >>> >> >>I did Applied Maths in Form 7. >> > I did too. We got shown punchcards, a little Fortran, and were sold > calculators (a captive market?). The class was small. >
My mother is bemoaning the fact that she's just run out of the punched cards I used for some school project... she's been using them for shopping lists for over 30 years! It was a big project (: Steve -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
