Subj : Re: Old dudes
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Geri Atricks
Date : Sat Mar 02 2024 01:35 pm

 pF> My high school had Commodore CBMs, like a Pet but with a real keyboard,
 pF> 80 columns and 32K of memory. The professor brought in a small WANG
 pF> computer that read punched cards for data entry and had us all use it.
 pF> We didn't understand why, he just asked us to trust him, we'd
 pF> understand.

<Snickers like a 10 year old> you said Wang!  :) :P :D


Heaven forbid that you drop those cards and they get out of order. :)
Our lab had 2 teletypes and 2 CBM's. I learned COMOL on the CBM's. To this day I sill like the old commodore dual floppy unit, because it did a bit copy, so you could copy a floppy for any OS/Computer. Had to use it to make backups of the install disks for the few XT's that we had in the offices.

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