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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......
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Ah ha! So they had computers back then!!! 
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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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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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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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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.
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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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06-14-2007, 05:31 PM
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..so my roommate and I are trying to stay up that night and the invites don't come and we finally drop off to sleep around 11. The phone rings at 11:30!-but it's not the counselor, it's Coach Broyles who wants the freshman and sophomore cheerleaders to show up at some pep rally for the JV team.
Somewhere in the middle of the night, the counselor shows up in our room with invitations. I sit up groggily, look at the invitations, nope don't really like those, tell the counselor to drop me from rush, and go back to sleep.
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06-14-2007, 05:38 PM
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WHAT?!? OMG wow!!
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06-14-2007, 05:50 PM
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Somewhere in the middle of the night, the counselor shows up in our room with invitations. I sit up groggily, look at the invitations, nope don't really like those, tell the counselor to drop me from rush, and go back to sleep.
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Wow!!!
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06-14-2007, 10:12 PM
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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 |
Ha Ha, you and I are the same age! I don't think U of Ala. used computers back then...the earth was still molton lava and it was too hot!! 
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06-14-2007, 10:40 PM
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So we come to Bid Day. I had planned to be elsewhere when the bids were given out but surprise! The computers acted up again and the bids were late so I was caught in traffic on Sorority Row when the happy NMs were spilling down the street. That was hard.
Debbie didn't get a bid from either sorority she preffed.
Cathy didn't get a bid from either sorority she preffed, including her mother's group, so I guess that sororities didn't have the rule then that legacies who go to Prefs must be put on the first bid list.
I still wanted to be Greek very much but I could see that with cheer duties vs. pledge duties, it'd be next to impossible. Then I found out that if I wanted to continue in my major, I would have to transfer because Arkansas was dropping it so I put Greek life on the back burner. I got an open rush bid but turned it down. I had plans for my next recruitment.
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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.
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Did they eventually sell them to uiuc?
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06-15-2007, 07:53 PM
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MORE MORE MORE!! Pretty Please with sugar, whip cream, and a cherry on top
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06-15-2007, 08:11 PM
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She's teasing us. . .
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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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06-14-2007, 03:43 PM
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Ok so I wasn't the only one thinking this...
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