On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 16:42 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-10-06 14:46]: > > Lucky you! I don't think any of my teachers new what a computer or a > > program was. I had a Texas Instruments Programmable Calculator TI-58C, > > with a wonderfull 500 program steps memory (shared with storage memory > > space, so you never really had that many steps), so I knew what a program > > was. But I couldn't show off, because none of my friends understood what I > > talked about so excitedly! > > :^) my 'computer/calculator' was three pieces of bamboo with a > plastic slideing window, and NO memory.....
My father had one of those and an abacus. A teacher of mine used a blank slide rule, he was PHI Beta Kappa. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
