[aklug] Re: Old farts club

While intro courses were taught in Basic, most moved quickly to Pascal
(or Fortran). We did 360 assembler manually as juniors; no GUI, no
fancy editors (emacs was still in the future), and boxes of cards
(which were subject to pranking)

On May 3, 2009, at 5:18 PM, markt9 <virtuallug.com@gmail.com> wrote:

> dam, that is some heavy reading material...
>
> Marc wrote:
>> The machines of those bygone days, whether cranking out papers like
>> this: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/3769/5/bab3452.0001.001.pdf
>> , or guiding Apollo to the moon, perhaps provide some opportunity to
>> reflect on just what we do with the technological largess we
>> presently
>> enjoy.
>>
>> UofM is my alma mater (graduated in '74) and was playground of sorts
>> for IBM bigiron wise - and as a CIS student I actually got to use a
>> green screen from time to time.
>
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