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.
