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?
Similar Independent Sources posts:
- Woman responsible for “providing personal, social and academic support” to high school students arrested in $2.6 million fraud: Sabrina Walker, 37, is a high school counselor and whose job is to help kids navigate the difficult choices they have to make in life. It is hard to i ...
- Congress to Accidentally Ban (Some) Teen Bloggers?: Kids and young teens won't be able to use school or library computers to access MySpace -- or much of anything else, if recently introduced legislatio ...
- Our New Hero: Slacker, or Genius, Or Both?: When you roll out of bed Monday morning and get ready for a day working so you can pay for your house / kids / car / affectation, consider the story o ...
- Bringing New Meaning to the Phrase “Failure is not an option”: How things have changed in the many years since the Independent Sources contributors were in school. In those days, most kids would learn enough to pa ...
- We’re writing about the Screech Sex Tape because someone has to: A sex tape with Dustin Diamond, AKA Screech from 'Saved by the Bell,' has surfaced in which the former TV star cavorts with two unidentified women. T ...
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.”