[TriLUG] More computer trivia...

[mark at thefowles.com]

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.
>
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