More Computer Talk - Data Processing w Punch Cards

[Mikey]

In highschool, one of my classes was Data Processing using punch cards

Anybody else ?

[livingdead70]

Nah in my highschool we had Apple 2s, but I graduated in 89 so little later than you it seems (no age joke meant there man!)
trey

[cjefferys]

Our high school had a room full of Commodore PETs. No punch cards at all.

[shyndman]

When I first started in IT, we used both card decks and tape. Tape was fragile but at least you couldn't drop it like a card deck and totally mess up your program and its jcl. I remember we had special metal cases to hold the card decks together although most folks used rubber bands and used to write something on the side of the deck in the hopes that it might help put it back together if they dropped it.

[david_b]

My first CS class projects at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee was punch cards, but we had the first desktop computers by that time ('84/'85), and still reel-to-reels at EDS when I worked there back in 1986.

[The Toyroom]

We had Trash-80s in our high school computer lab....Things sucked so bad in the "computer math" class all we ever did "computer-wise" was format a floppy disc.

[MegoMark71]

oddly i remember my grade school had apples but i can't remember what my high school had.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Isn't it kinda sad that kids today will never know the joy of making a punchcard Christmas wreath?

Don C.

[megocrazy]

7th and 8th grade 79-80. You needed to be in the level one class to get into it. We had an entire classroom just for the computer. It looked just like the womper from War Games. I think Cobalt was the programming language . What a waste of time. Obsolete by the time I got to High School. Pascal same thing. I would have been better off if I took 5 years off and toured Europe waiting for basic to be perfected. Every year we'd learn something new and every summer it would be obsolete. Was cool at the time.

[toys2cool]

I don't even know what the hell that is

[jwyblejr]

It was pretty much done by the time I got to high school. They still had them but weren't required to know. Do remember having to use an older computer that had a 7" floppy drive. Those things were funky. Each computer was inside a desk and when you put the floppy in,it would make a loud "clunk" sound.

[vulcan2074]

I don't even know what the hell that is

Ha Ha Ha, That makes two of us
Sammy