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BerryBaby · 08-14-2008, 02:16 PM

[quote=Pluff Mudder;22962]We didn't have such a thing as computers when I was in HS or even college. There was one "super computer" at UNC-CH that my school used. Had to keypunch your program out on the cards, feed it into the reader, send it over the phone-line to the "super computer" and in a couple days the dot-matrix printer back in the class room would finally spit out your program for you. Woe is be if you dropped your stack of cards and try to get them back in the right order. Kind of showing my age here!

I use to love keypunch! I can go one better...we learned to type on manual typewriters. You were lucky when you were able to use one of the electric!

Also, as part of Business Class, you had to fill in on the switchboard once a week for the high school. It was the old plug in board that you sometimes see in the old movies. Must admit, it was fun.

We have seen the best of both worlds, haven't we Pluff Mudder? Kids nowadays don't know what they missed!:icon115:

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BerryBaby Administrator Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 6,899 Recipes: 6 Rep Power: 10	[quote=Pluff Mudder;22962]We didn't have such a thing as computers when I was in HS or even college. There was one "super computer" at UNC-CH that my school used. Had to keypunch your program out on the cards, feed it into the reader, send it over the phone-line to the "super computer" and in a couple days the dot-matrix printer back in the class room would finally spit out your program for you. Woe is be if you dropped your stack of cards and try to get them back in the right order. Kind of showing my age here! I use to love keypunch! I can go one better...we learned to type on manual typewriters. You were lucky when you were able to use one of the electric! Also, as part of Business Class, you had to fill in on the switchboard once a week for the high school. It was the old plug in board that you sometimes see in the old movies. Must admit, it was fun. We have seen the best of both worlds, haven't we Pluff Mudder? Kids nowadays don't know what they missed!:icon115: __________________ BerryBaby Cooking Fanatic!