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To: Doppler who wrote (60967)	12/3/2000 11:08:53 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Respond to of 63513

All these punch card stories remind me of the one limited set of experiences I had with computer programming in college. When I was in college I had no clue what I wanted to do with my life (kinda like now <g>)..... Anyway, I took courses in almost everything, and at one point ended up in a computer science course which was basically an intro to programming. On a very simple level. We used punch cards and had to wait in line in the middle of the night to get the programs run at the computer center. (The IBM PC wasn't even invented until I was more than halfway through college). The punch cards were so much of a pain in the @ss that I ended up deciding on doing a major in English the next semester. I'm sure there was a cause and effect in there someplace. Fortunately I took the class on a pass/fail basis so it didn't count against me. <g>

To: Doppler who wrote (60967)	12/4/2000 1:41:30 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

I got in the computer industry back in 1982. Paper tape was still being used on some of the puters in the data center, but the stuff that I worked on was all magnetic. We had the 1Mb Pertec removable disk drives and 40Mb multi-platter drives that were the size of washing machines. The system that the company made was an electronic pre-press system for newspapers and magazines. They had laser scanners and laser typesetters and a text pagination system. Each component had 64k of memory. Oh, and they didn't have printed circuit boards....it was all wire wrap.