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Post by bibboid on May 17, 2022 21:26:37 GMT -5
My first computer class was in ninth grade and they had us typing out punch cards. To run a program adding two numbers you had to create about twenty cards and feed them into the computer in a stack. If you had a single keystroke wrong it would reject the whole thing and you would have to go through each card one at a time and figure out where your error was. Such fun
The next year we got the IBM Series 1. It was a mainframe with about a dozen terminals that our school was testing out for IBM. We started off with Basic. The teacher would give us programs to input and then let us screw around the rest o& the time. We would pick up magazines with games in them and they let us enter them and play. When we learned you could do a repeat-string (repeat a given text a set number of times) our classmate soon had his screen filled with his last name repeating over and over and over. His name was Frank Wang. The teacher just shook his head and walked away.
I also learned Fortran and COBOL by the end of high school and then Pascal in my first year of college.
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Post by ERON on May 18, 2022 8:38:47 GMT -5
It took me three tries to pass computer science in college because my university was still using these ancient PCs with black and orange screens, with C:/ command prompts and all that. This was in the late '90s, mind you. The cheap Packard Bell computer in my room that I got on clearance at Radio Shack was more advanced than these dinosaurs. It wasn't until my senior year when they finally upgraded to then-current PCs with Windows that I was finally able to pass the class.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on May 18, 2022 11:01:11 GMT -5
My school called themselves a technology college however I remember them only upgrading to Office 2003 in 2007.
They also still had XP on their PCs when I left in 2010 however seeing how bad Vista was and that Windows 7 had been out for less than a year I think I can forgive them for that.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on May 18, 2022 11:42:35 GMT -5
Also remember a ton of kids in high school would play Bloons Tower Defense. I'd like to think they grew up and made those mobile game app ads that are like "only 2% of people can solve THIS SUPER HARD PUZZLE!"
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 18, 2022 12:07:54 GMT -5
Back in my senior year the school started having the teachers keep their gradebooks on the computer in their class room. Had a buddy that was in 10th grade,he figured out quickly that if he got on any computer in the network he could go into the gradebooks and change grades.
Now this buddy was poor. Like so poor he owned 2 pairs of pants and 3 shirts. So he started offering to people's grades. Like if you had say a D in Algebra II and wanted a C that would cost you 20 bucks.
Also my buddy got pissed at some teacher,no idea what happened. So one day he finds me during morning break "Make sure you are near a computer today at 2:25 PM"
I happened to be in my Honors English class at that time. When 2:25 hit every computer on the network cut on. An alarm bell was playing and on the screen was a hustler centerfold my buddy had scanned.
Now while they had no proof they were sure my buddy had done this. So he got banned froom the computers at school.
I graduate. Get a letter while I am in BCT from my buddy. His senior year the school offered to hhelp pay part of his college if he would agree to come work for the school district after college in their IT department.
Buddy finished college in may of 96 and has worked for the school district since then.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on May 18, 2022 12:12:14 GMT -5
Earlier memory was us in second grade or so sabotaging our Oregon Trail runs, and also playing a fitness bike game where you had to feed the dude healthy to finish the race and so of course everyone gave him booze and he’d fall out halfway.
Around junior high we were getting in trouble for looking up wrestling and anime stuff when we were supposed to be learning super basic html terms and stuff.
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