I used sorters and card reproducers back in high school as well -- It was so high tech.
> my first computer was a mainframe -- unless you could the sorters and > collators that we programmed in high school but wiring patch boards. in > 1967, we were an odd class; half in "distributed education" that is > indentured servants to local bank and insurance cos whilst still in school > and half overachieving geeks who were bound for engineering schools and > who wanted to be near anything that approached a computer. the geek > rewired the electronic office equipment in ways that we claimed allowed > them to become fortune telling devices to the amazement of the poor > shorthand teacher who was stuck with us in class. > at the end of the year, we got to take a stack of cards on which we'd > punched out a simple program in watfor (aka waterloo fortran) down to the > local community college. there they were read into a telephone line > connected reader and processed at the famous research triangle's > tucc (triangle universities computer center). this took hours. > > ========================================================================== > Paul Jones > "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Alasdair Gray > http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (919) 962-7600 fax: (919) 962-8071 > =========================================================================== > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
