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10. Yes, standing in line for two hours to get at the card punch...

Wed Jul 20, 2016, 10:54 AM

Jul 2016

... because one lousy period was wrong. I was a systems guy, so I did FORTRAN, but the experience was the same.

-- Mal

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Ah - Memories - Remember the excitment of going to the School's computer lab? [View all] packman Jul 2016 OP

My schools computer lab: ret5hd Jul 2016 #1

How modern. This was mine. yellowcanine Jul 2016 #2

You missed out on the really awesome computer labs of the late '70s The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2016 #3

Yes, standing in line for two hours to get at the card punch... malthaussen Jul 2016 #10

Early computing packman Jul 2016 #4

Yes, I can't remember how many times I have... ohnoyoudidnt Jul 2016 #5

we carried ours with us in my day rurallib Jul 2016 #6

Still have mine!! lastlib Jul 2016 #7

I lived in the computer lab -- sometimes literally. hunter Jul 2016 #8

Hah! My school had no computers - I graduated high school in 1970 csziggy Jul 2016 #9