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

On 05/24/2012 07:53 AM, James Knott wrote:
> Marc Paré wrote:
> > OK, I'm dating myself here, but, 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 ... only to find out
> > that they all switched that year to COBOL, DOH!
>
> My first exposure was Fortran, in Gr. 12, where we used pencil mark
> cards.  I then later had courses on BASIC, Pascal, Fortran and C.  I
> also learned a bit of BASIC on my own and assembly language on the
> 8080, 6502, 6809 & 8088 microprocessors and Data General Nova &
> Eclipse mini-computers.
This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember
teletypes with punched tape?

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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