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Old Sun Mar 02, 2014, 08:40am
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That's nothing. Anyone remember punch cards?
Yep! And scheduling computer time in the lab to run em.......
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Old Sun Mar 02, 2014, 12:18pm
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3.5" drive
Used them back when I was teaching. Still have my disks, and still have a 3.5 USB external drive if I ever want to go back in time.

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5.25" drive.
Used with the first computer I used for teaching. Appleworks (documents, data base, spread sheet).

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Yep! And scheduling computer time in the lab to run em?
College. FORTRAN.

I go back even further. Ticker tape (punched tape) in high school. FOCAL.

Note (below) the teletype machine to the right.



Here are some of my high school teachers correcting our final exams:

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Back in the early 60s, I had a HS physics teacher who thought it was ridiculous that people were going to make computers the size of buildings to do what a slide rule could do, since you could fit a slide rule in your pocket.
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