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My HS was in the process of dumping the IBM card punch system and transitioning to the HP unit in 1980. It was cool running punch cards through the machine - it sounded like machinegun fire!
I thought the terminal system in college was great but when I was working on assignments, I would "submit a job" to the computer, then go wait in line for the ream of paper to come out of the printer to show the results. Only then, would I realize I had typed one character out of place and the whole program blew up... Dump the printout in the trash, back to the terminal to make more corrections and submit the job again.
Sometimes I worked from home on a 300 baud modem and I had to wait until next morning to find out if my job completed successfully! People today, many times, don't realize how easy computer work is with the GUI!
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-Evan
Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63
Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250
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