Weekend Edition: They Were Coal-Powered, But They WERE Computers, Dammit!
I was at a recruiting function for the business school I graduated from in 1986, and a 2003 graduate asked me — quite seriously — if we had computers back then.
I almost fell out of my walker.
The answer: Yes, we did:
Actually, we did have IBM PC-XTs:
Where is my Lotus 1-2-3 floppy, anyway?
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October 15th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
The first papers I ever submitted were done on a Comodore 64.
October 16th, 2005 at 8:18 am
I first papers submitted in graduate school were done on a thing called a “typewriter.”