[cmyx6go]

You know you’re old if the hospital put you in a box so your parents could transport you home when you and your mother were released. My grandmother kept the boxes with the names, date of birth, weight, height, and sex written on them for me and my siblings. She had them under her bed and used them for storage. Get off my lawn.

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Way before email….Ever use a telex or teletype? You typed messages on it and the type put holes onto a tape. When you were ready to send your message, you would feed the tape through the machine.

The model 28 is what I used in my early Army career.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

You know you’re old if the hospital put you in a box so your parents could transport you home when you and your mother were released. My grandmother kept the boxes with the names, date of birth, weight, height, and sex written on them for me and my siblings. She had them under her bed and used them for storage. Get off my lawn.

My parents threatened to put me back into that box and return me to the hospital a few times.....

[Toddbmw]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Get off my lawn, kid! My first computer used paper tape for storage and a printer was the only screen that it had.....

Used a teletype device in High School, connected to the mainframe at the college.
Had study hall and was able to go to the computer lab , a room with one of those.
Not sure if I did any programming but there was a ICBM game that we played.

Took all the dots from the paper tape, poured them in a friends parents car, into the dash vents.
When his dad got in and started the car, dots went flying out of the vents. Had not remembered that for a long time!
For reference

First year in college, had to use cards to write programs for classwork.

One year in college had an internship job in Cleveland at the Federal Building downtown,
working for the Dept of the Navy, where we used cards for programming,
and saw an "old" IBM computer that one had to rewire to program!

Guess the year? At this time I had a money market account that was paying 13% interest!

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Toddbmw

Used a teletype device in High School, connected to the mainframe at the college.
Had study hall and was able to go to the computer lab , a room with one of those.
Not sure if I did any programming but there was a ICBM game that we played.

Took all the dots from the paper tape, poured them in a friends parents car, into the dash vents.
When his dad got in and started the car, dots went flying out of the vents. Had not remembered that for a long time!

We had the same setup in high school. Teletype consoles in the lab, mainframe at the other high school in town. And those tape dots all over the floor. Never though of using them to prank someone. That's funny. We had an artillery game that must have been similar to your ICBM game. And then there was writing a simple program to print x, x squared, square root of x, etc, etc.

[tturedraider]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Way before email….Ever use a telex or teletype? You typed messages on it and the type put holes onto a tape. When you were ready to send your message, you would feed the tape through the machine.

That reminded me of this. We got computer punch cards after we stood in line for hours during registration in college and if the class you wanted still had openings by the time you got to the front of the line you got a card that you then took to be read and registered for your classes.

When I first enrolled at Texas Tech University, a state school, tuition was $4/semester hour. A few years later, before I graduated, the state said we can’t maintain this subsidy and we must raise tuition to $12/semester hour and we all thought we had been shot through the heart!!