barebones/build a box systems

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:18:40 -0400
"Boland, John" <jboland-kYvJ4k0XgburIcfx335RAVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> was that a slip-stick or circular?
>=20
> i used a circular for a while in high school and then along came
> computers....
> i carried two boxes of computer cards (sherman, set the wayback machine
> for 1971.) just in case i got out of other classes early and could run
> down to the computer room and get a "run" in.

I certainly used a slide rule in high-school and college (and in
aviation we also have a "computer" which is a circular slide rule. I
also have an abacus for when the lights go out. But, when I started
computing, we used cards.=20

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