NFRC: Man, did this make me feel old...

[marilynfl]

From my niece, chatting about her kids starting school this week:

"Kevin started kindergarten. He'll start next week full day. He loved his teacher and is excited about going to computer class".

I never even SAW a computer until I was 24!!!!

 

[maycee]

The first computer I saw took the whole floor of General Telephone's office in Santa Monica.

 

[michael-in-phoenix]

I remember making wall-hanging Christmas decorations out of folded punch cards.

 

[richard-in-cincy]

Trying to imagine...

my kindergarten teacher, who was born in 1899, teaching computer class in my kindergarten room in 1964. We had toys, a big playhouse, blocks, a sandbox...

 

[melissa-dallas]

Believe it or not the insurance company I worked for was still using punch cards

in the late eighties.

 

[melissa-dallas]

And flannel Little Red Hen and Chick costumes stuffed with nylon netting.

 

[erininny]

We have a shelf of those (and tape cannisters) from when my dad was in info/tech in LA. smileys/smile.gif)

 

[lana-in-fl]

I still have one stack of punch cards somewhere, just to remind me how it used to be

when I complain about my computer being slow.

 

[michael-in-phoenix]

And we didn't even get to eat paste until 1st grade.

 

[patbastrop]

Neither did I -- remember carbon paper and erasable bond? I took key punch classes from the IRS in

college -- yikes. College registration was a week long affair. We stood in long lines in the gym and waited to get a punched card for each section. If you broke the tab off your card you lost your class!

 

[amanda_pennsylvania]

Purple mimeographs! Loved the smell of the fresh ink.