[extropy-chat] History of the portable computer

[Samantha Atkins]

1971.  First "honorary" computer class was for local HS math brainiacs. 
  What did they teach us? COBOL on punched cards!   I ran away from 
computers and didn't come back till i caught techno-hippie religion 
around 77-78 and the first chips for rolling you own were out.  First 
real honey paying job was ancient Fortran in 1980 but thankfully not on 
punched cards. I've had many bouts of cynicism over the years but never 
de-converted.

- samantha

On Mar 25, 2005, at 10:57 AM, scerir wrote:

>> You young kids have it too easy nowadays.
>
> By chance, does anyone remember those FORTRAN punched cards?
> http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/collection/i-program.html
> Or am I alone here?
> s.
>
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