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Old 02-17-2015, 04:47 AM   #19 (permalink)
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The first computer I ever used lived in its own special room - it was the cutting-edge pride of my college. Students only had access to a card-punching machine, with which you could type up a program of maybe a thousand cards and have them fed into the computer by the full-time computer expert/assistant. So this pic is very indicative of my experience:-




About thirty years later, I got something very similar to Ki´s, bought secondhand when the company I worked for went bust:-

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This is almost exactly what my first computer looked like:


The most wonderful thing about this was getting a CD-ROM of a Yu-gi-Oh card game that my son could play; both of us were just transfixed by the quality of the sound and the graphics - and the fact that we could get it to work at all!

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^ What a sweet picture!
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