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

> ________________________________
> From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:35 AM
> Subject: 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
>
> I used a teletype as well as an audio cassette tape to load and store from my first micro [kit?]. 
> Microsoft BASIC was great!
>
> Paul Schwartz
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