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To: Neenny who wrote (60956)	12/3/2000 1:49:44 AM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) of 63513

Why not ? I think life begins at 45.... I'll take a shot at it. I didn't use it personally, but I know for sure that the guys who had passed out of school 3 years before we joined the school, had used it. My cousin was one of them, he's about 5 years elder to me...but was 7 or 8 years ahead in his academic achievements...having got a string of double promotions in his primary school... Having said that, I must add that I wasn't brought up in the country @ the cutting edge of technology...so maybe in US the calculators came in much before his time too....but even then, the scientific calculators with sine cos funtions and log functions were pretty rare and very expensive.......even @ my time... So there, I know someone who used slide rules...I've even seen the slide rules myself... I used a t-square in my first year of engg drawing....although later got a mini drafter.... I worked on IBM 360 too with punch cards, volatile core memories and removable discs...80KB discs as big as a 30" TV....and just about as heavy. I remember I found it difficult to load it by myself and this cute guy @work always hung around to help me.... Whats more, I worked on 1401 machine as well. If anyone remembers, these machines had no memory whatsoever.... and hence no resident operating system...the operating system had to be loaded thru the punch cards... Not to be worried though...I'm just a harmless, grass eating type of dynasaur..... Now wheres my prize ?

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