Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

[Simon Cropper <simoncropper@fossworkflowguides.com>]

On 24/05/12 15:50, Marc Paré wrote:
> I was taught at the very last year at my university where "punch cards"
> were still being used, and I used to chat on beasts that spewed paper
> instead of drawing on monitors, way back in 1976. I studied FORTRAN in
> 1980 so that I could be with the up-and-coming in-crowd on campus

Ah, memories... Standing in line because the reader did nor detect the 
pencil marks properly. My first program - write a program that 
calculated the distance between two points on earth using their latitude 
and longitude.

In the same year, I was introduced to a PC1 
{http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ibm_pc_5150.jpg/250px-Ibm_pc_5150.jpg} 
with Ashton Tate's dbase II on it! Green letters on a nearly black 
screen. I still have a pang of nostalgia when hearing the whir of the 
hard drive as it takes 1-2 minutes to boot up. The start of the 
serverless revolution!

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