#Busted Buster Adventure!
05-Nov-93 19:47:04
Sb: #120686-#Busted Buster Adventure!
Fm: Roy S. Laufer 72435,1025
To: BILL LEACH 71330,2621
Well, I'm a doddering olde 38 years myself <g>.
I played with teletypes later on when I attended NYU (I finagled a
Physics account to use their HP3000C Mainframe). Prior to that I
could only hack vicariosly thru my issues of Popular Electronics,
Byte, and Creative Computing. We had access to computers in my High
School, but a little clique of math club types wouldn't let anyone
but them touch it (a regular high school high priesthood <g>). I got
back at them by outdoing them all in calculus class, which insured
that I would never see a computer during high school (but it was
worth it <g>!
In my senior year at NYU I got to do some research with a PDP-11,
unfortunately my Prof didn't know more than how to turn it off, and
on, and load programs from paper tape, so I never got a chance to
develope much experience with the beast!
I haven't seen slide rules being sold in decades, I guess our old
ones will be collectors items in time…