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Originally Posted by Xanthe
Hell, I was in the first computer class my high school ever offered; we had to physically phone in to a mainframe at a college in Massachusetts - phone cradle, teletype and all - because no local colleges, or high schools for that matter, had one. Forget about Apples; those were still a gleam in Jobs' eye.  I think we were part of the DTSS, and did our programming in Basic. |
I remember visiting my dad's office during an open house and going down to the room where they did the punch cards that they used to make their programs machine-readable.
I'm sure some women not much older than I am worked with punch cards, too.