[jacketree]

Ah yes, punch cards.  We used those back in high school.  I was very lucky at GT to only have a handful of classes that required any programming and the requisite trip to the ICS building to wait in line to use one of the teletype machines; and then return a day later to see complete failure in green and white out of another line waiting for the bin.  So your anecdote Eric made me think of the most epic day in the history of the ICS building when sometime around noon a bunch of us were in failure lines and some dude just snapped.  Threw one of the teletypes right through that plate glass window.

By my senior year, technology had advanced to the point where the teletype interface was optional; now we could wait in a line to use something called "a personal computer," with a woefully inadequate supply of them stashed somewhere in the library IIRC.  I stuck with my trusty Olivetti with the busted "q" and a bottle of white-out.

I love legacy software.  When some of the hydraulic models we used migrated from mainframes to DOS, the terms "card" and "deck" persisted.  Now that everything is windows and graphically (GIS) based, the young kids look at me like I'm an idiot when I ask them where they stored their "existing conditions deck."

[jacketree]

Ah yes, punch cards.  We used those back in high school.  I was very lucky at GT to only have a handful of classes that required any programming and the requisite trip to the ICS building to wait in line to use one of the teletype machines; and then return a day later to see complete failure in green and white out of another line waiting for the bin.  So your anecdote Eric made me think of the most epic day in the history of the ICS building when sometime around noon a bunch of us were in failure lines and some dude just snapped.  Threw one of the teletypes right through that plate glass window.

By my senior year, technology had advanced to the point where the teletype interface was optional; now we could wait in a line to use something called "a personal computer," with a woefully inadequate supply of them stashed somewhere in the library IIRC.  I stuck with my trusty Olivetti with the busted "q" and a bottle of white-out.

I love legacy software.  When some of the hydraulic models we used migrated from mainframes to DOS, the terms "card" and "deck" persisted.  Now that everything is windows and graphically (GIS) based, the young kids look at me like I'm an idiot when I ask them where they stored their "existing conditions deck."