Al,

We go back even farther. You taught me to do my first ANOVA's on those
electro-mechanical calculators. I don't remember the brand, but I do
remember spending hours in one of the cubicles in the lab, running the
calculations while listening to the whir and chunk of the machines. And then
going back and doing it all again to make sure that the first calculation
was correct. 

Those hours were one of the things that motivated me to learn to write
statistical programs for that time share system. I had to store those
programs on punched paper tapes. I still have at least one of those paper
tapes in a desk drawer somewhere at home. Unless one of my kids pulled it
out and used it for confetti at some New Year's party.

Dennis

Dennis M. Goff
Professor of Psychology
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
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Al Cone Wrote:
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Dennis,
You (and I ) go back further than that if you go back further than our
first PC.  Remember the time-share system shared by Lynchburg College,
Randolph Macon Women's College, and Sweet Briar where the console was an
ASR-33 teletype with paper tape to save files and programs to.  We had
to write our own statistical analysis programs, load them on the
computer downtown, load the data, and wait around for the printout on a
roll of non-paginated paper.  Not quite right; we did have a little
program that put in 10 dashes every 101/2 inches.
Al
Al Cone
502 S. 14th St.
Bismarck, ND 58504
(701) 258-6897

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