Re: Punch cards

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On Monday 07 April 2008, Ed Greshko wrote:
>David L. Gehrt wrote:
>> Oh, the other stories we old crotches could tell.
>
>Almost as good as watching a slide show of the neighbor's summer vacation at
>Disney World.

Wassa matter Ed, lose out in the can you top this contest?

The first computer I saw was on the SUI campus in the later 50's, had 
something like 12,000 12AU7 vacuum tubes in it, and was hooked to a couple of 
highly modified Harris stream presses equipt with photocells to read the dots 
on the fly, that fed the papers from the standardized Iowa tests they use in 
place of the very pricey per student SB test for input and had a row of 
baudot tty's or some such for output.  Programmed only to do that job.

That test was pretty close to the SB in terms of rating a child's IQ.  We had 
several who took it the same year I did that went on to do some unusual 
things, and we topped the list, not in grades earned in school because most 
of us were bored silly by school but 4 of that class made scores in the 
middle 140's, with me at the top with 147.  Had I known then what an 
influence they would have, I would have quit doing electronics service and 
wiggled into that door somehow.  OTOH, electronics in general has been good 
to me.  I can't complain, and at 73, its too late to buy a new horse.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Graduate students and most professors are no smarter than undergrads.
They're just older.


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