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Originally Posted by balok
Deputy-Dawg, are you really 74? I've never met a person over 50 who can handle a computer beyond pointing and clicking with difficulty. You must have been a professor or an engineer during your working career.
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Actually I am but 5 weeks from 75 birthday. My degree is in chemistry (science not engineering - there are no plumbers in my house! But that was only because there were no degrees, indeed no courses in computer science I went to school. But while I was in college I developed a real love hate relationship with computers. Being the nerd that I was, at graduation time I had sufficient credits so that I could have had my degree in Chemistry - which was my stated major; mathmatics - which I am convinced is probably true of the vast majority of people who study the hard sciences or in philosophy. It was also the first year that student records had been commited to a computer, which decided on the Thursday before graduation (commencements were always on Sunday) that I had not completed my degree requirements, perhaps I should say we had not completed them because of the ability to choose between three degrees it made the assumption that there were three of me. My mother was devastated! I was not thrilled either.
But the following Monday I went and saw my faculty advisor to find out what courses I needed to take to get my degree. She, with a devilish grin, told me that late on Sunday they realized that there had to be a bug in the program in that although it might be barely possible to have three students in class wiih the same name there just was no way that three students, indeed even two that would ever have the same student ID number. Went further to say that one of my math professors, who was long into statistical analysis was totally incapable of calculating the odds of three students with the same name and the same ID number.
Then she said, cutting to the chase, that I had graduated with the degree in chemistry since that had been my stated major when I had matriculate. Then she told me that she would be happy to enroll me in graduate school.
So as I said a love hate relationship was created. Indeed I threatened on that fateful morn to take fire axe and cut the computers power cord into neat 6" lengths. So it continued for some forty years at the end of which I had become the manager of the engineering computer center of a major US corporation. And there is another story of love and hate!!