>________________________________
> From: Jay Lozier <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:35 AM
>Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational
>software for math
>
>On 05/24/2012 07:53 AM, James Knott wrote:
>> Marc Paré wrote:
>>> OK, I'm dating myself here, but, I was taught at the very last year
>>> at my university where "punch cards" were still being used, and I
>>> used to chat on beasts that spewed paper instead of drawing on
>>> monitors, way back in 1976. I studied FORTRAN in 1980 so that I could
>>> be with the up-and-coming in-crowd on campus ... only to find out
>>> that they all switched that year to COBOL, DOH!
>>
>> My first exposure was Fortran, in Gr. 12, where we used pencil mark
>> cards. I then later had courses on BASIC, Pascal, Fortran and C. I
>> also learned a bit of BASIC on my own and assembly language on the
>> 8080, 6502, 6809 & 8088 microprocessors and Data General Nova &
>> Eclipse mini-computers.
>>
>This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember
>teletypes with punched tape?
>
>--
>Jay Lozier
>[email protected]
>
>I used a teletype as well as an audio cassette tape to load and store from my
>first micro [kit?]. Microsoft BASIC was great!
>
>Paul Schwartz
>
>
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