| Re: Movie Computers [message #340838] |
Sat, 01 April 2017 14:26  |
osmium
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On 4/1/2017 11:44 AM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:50:28 -0000 (UTC), Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>> In article <XnsA73BB0FF551DAfalkarcabca@213.239.209.88>,
>> Alfred Falk <falk@arc.ab.ca> writes:
>>> Not quite the same functionality: 029 could do EBCDIC. I don't know what
>>> the 026 needed tubes for but they took a while to warm up, whereas the 029
>>> was on instantly.
>> I arrived at university (physics) in 1983, and this was the year
>> the online computing system went live.
> Was nice to witness this specific point in time. At my school there were
> virtually no computers in the early 80s (not even in the later 80s
> IIRC). Once a year we had to take seminars and could pick one from about
> 20 a topics. Politics, environment were the more interesting. But there
> was also *one* called "Computers". Hopelessly overran of course and
> almost impossible to "win" the draw to get in. I was among the lucky once
> only once.
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> My school never saw the computer revolution coming and didn't bother to
> increase the number of courses even in later 80s when they should have
> "got" it by the sheer number of students interested in this course.
What country had those conditions?
I was teaching CSci in college in the mid eighties and it seemed to me
that computers were already fully embedded in the US culture. I would
have been surprised if I had heard of a college or university that
ignored computers in their curriculum.
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| Re: Movie Computers [message #341022 is a reply to message #340838] |
Mon, 03 April 2017 15:41  |
hancock4
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On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 2:26:54 PM UTC-4, Osmium wrote:
>> My school never saw the computer revolution coming and didn't bother to
>> increase the number of courses even in later 80s when they should have
>> "got" it by the sheer number of students interested in this course.
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> What country had those conditions?
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> I was teaching CSci in college in the mid eighties and it seemed to me
> that computers were already fully embedded in the US culture. I would
> have been surprised if I had heard of a college or university that
> ignored computers in their curriculum.
I am surprised that a school--in the late 1980s--had no computer
program. However, I have learned, to my surprise, that a lot of
institutions out there did not necessarily keep up with what we
assumed everyone else was doing. That is, a lot of schools, colleges,
employers, etc., were stuck in the distant past in terms of curriculum
and policies, for whatever reasons.
For instance, our City Hall was served by a cord switchboard and
rotary dial phones well into the 1990s. In the late 1970s, they
had a full fledged punched card tabulating facility.
Indeed, I'll be many people here at least once had a job interview
at a place that was surprisingly out of date technologically or
in terms of policy.
I had mentioned the old manager who was perfectly happy with 1401
Autocoder and only got a 360 because the 1401 ceased to be reliable.
He would've stuck with 100% Autocoder emulation. And plenty of
people did just that until Y2K.
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