Subj : Re: Commodore Computers
To   : Spectre
From : The Millionaire
Date : Sun Apr 24 2022 12:39:53



> The school I had in grade 7, form 1 as well called it, had something I never
> saw... the form 5/6s used it, they had punch cards they handed to a man in a
> white coat that took them into secret room and returned the results at a
> later time.

> By the time I left 2 full years later they'd for some strange reason
> installed a single lab of C64s, 24 of them I think, that shared a pair of
> disk drives that looked like they were going to explode from overwork. The
> odd part about this was that the 64 was already on the way out when they did
> all this.

> Spec

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Yeah I remember using punch cards in Grade 8. They were a real hassle to work
with. :-(

$ The Millionaire $
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