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Old 06-14-2007, 01:11 PM
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I wonder where she'll end up...
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Old 06-14-2007, 02:22 PM
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...so I go to cheer practice the next morning. When we show up at noon to get invitations, they tell us that the computer broke down and we won't get them until late that night. Parties are postponed. Whereupon our captain calls afternoon stunt practice and I, being the littlest, get thrown around the most and am hurting by the time dinner rolls around. Let me just creep into my bed and die.....
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Old 06-14-2007, 03:17 PM
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Carnation? What year was this??
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...they tell us that the computer broke down and we won't get them until late that night......
Ah ha! So they had computers back then!!!
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Old 06-14-2007, 03:34 PM
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BUT - how big were the computers? And did they use punch-cards???
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Old 06-14-2007, 03:40 PM
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BUT - how big were the computers? And did they use punch-cards???
I seriously was going to ask that, but I've already done enough elderfying today.
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Old 06-14-2007, 03:44 PM
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They were the kind you see on the Flintstones, where you slide stone cards through a slot and little dinosaurs bite the holes into them. And they broke down that year and the next and were still breaking down 5 years later at Mississippi State.
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Old 06-14-2007, 03:49 PM
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They were the kind you see on the Flintstones, where you slide stone cards through a slot and little dinosaurs bite the holes into them. And they broke down that year and the next and were still breaking down 5 years later at Mississippi State.
Oh OH ... I worked on those ... when I went thru rush in 1970 I worked in the computer center and got to help run the invitation acceptances thru the sorter.

But man it was nasty cleaning up after those little dinos
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Old 06-15-2007, 06:47 PM
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They were the kind you see on the Flintstones, where you slide stone cards through a slot and little dinosaurs bite the holes into them. And they broke down that year and the next and were still breaking down 5 years later at Mississippi State.
Did they eventually sell them to uiuc?
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Old 06-14-2007, 03:51 PM
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It was a mainframe, using SORUSH v1.0, which was programmed in COBOL.

OK, carnation, I'll stop making you feel old, provided you update soon!
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Old 06-14-2007, 03:43 PM
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Ah ha! So they had computers back then!!!
Ok so I wasn't the only one thinking this...
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Old 06-14-2007, 04:17 PM
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I wonder where she'll end up...
I'm looking forward to this rush thread not unlike my anticipation of the Soprano's finale, BTW, the gas station Phil was "clipped" at is near my house in NJ!!

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