Rutherford Staying at GT

[stinger78]

I'm walking in the thread like ...

 

[Techwood Relict]

I spent a month in Lubbock one weekend

..... and after I paid that 'speeding' ticket, I never went back......

 

[g0lftime]

Sarcasm/humor does not compute with you huh?

I have lived through this evolution from mainframe punch cards to voice recognition and AI. I did start with the old log log decitrig sliderule. Also we went to the moon with engineers using sliderules. Scarry thought isn't it. Computers have been around a long time now, just different. I worked in that industry my entire career. Saw huge changes. My sense of humor is somewhat tempered by the hours I spent punching computer card decks and spending the night in my car waiting to see if my Fortran program ran in the computer center. So much fun!!!

 

[Techwood Relict]

Depends on how you define computer.

 

[stinger78]

Also we went to the moon with engineers using sliderules. Scarry thought isn't it.

I had a retired NASA engineer laughingly tell me that once. Cue big west TX laugh. Man! He had some great stories. Silo in Kansas during Cuban missile crisis stuff. I miss that guy!

 

[57jacket]

I have lived through this evolution from mainframe punch cards to voice recognition and AI. I did start with the old log log decitrig sliderule. Also we went to the moon with engineers using sliderules. Scarry thought isn't it. Computers have been around a long time now, just different. I worked in that industry my entire career. Saw huge changes. My sense of humor is somewhat tempered by the hours I spent punching computer card decks and spending the night in my car waiting to see if my Fortran program ran in the computer center. So much fun!!!

Ha Ha. Pretty much mirrors my career. I had the 1st PC at Lockheed Martin. It had 800 bites of memory.LOL. A little tape drive supplied more memory and the program you were running. No printer. Main frame computers that filled a room can now be done on a cell phone. Fortran was my favorite programming anguage, but soon gave way to more powerful tools. I also remember using mechanical desk computers, along with slide rules. Good memories.

 

[stinger78]

Ha Ha. Pretty much mirrors my career. I had the 1st PC at Lockheed Martin. It had 800 bites of memory.LOL. A little tape drive supplied more memory and the program you were running. No printer.

We’re all just

 

[takethepoints]

Depends on how you define computer.

I can remember saving programs on paper tape. Ah, the good old days!

Update: Yes, I forgot to mention card decks. Lord, did those things suck!

 

[neb llarmus]

The computer had not yet been invented when you were young apparently

Calculators were just coming on the market. Slide rule baby!!

 

[Heisman's Ghost]

CS 1371 is Computing for Engineers that every Freshman engineering major is required to take. The course teaches programming basics via the language MATLAB, which indexes arrays starting from 1 rather than 0 like almost every other programming language.

Thank you, I think I will take your word for it. Makes sense and would be formidable to any incoming freshman I would imagine unless they were top shelf academically.

 

[stinger78]

Thank you, I think I will take your word for it. Makes sense and would be formidable to any incoming freshman I would imagine unless they were top shelf academically.

All Tech freshmen are top shelf academically.

 

[forensicbuzz]

I did not take this class. This class did not exist when I was in school. MATLAB did not exist when I was in school.

Okay, I lied, well, was mistaken. MATLAB became a product in 1984. However, when I was an undergraduate a couple of years later, we did not use MATLAB nor did we have a class requirement to learn it. I learned FORTRAN77, and I learned it badly.

 

[leatherneckjacket]

Okay, I lied, well, was mistaken. MATLAB became a product in 1984. However, when I was an undergraduate a couple of years later, we did not use MATLAB nor did we have a class requirement to learn it. I learned FORTRAN77, and I learned it badly.

I take it your professors believed in the objective reality that the programs you wrote in Fortran needed to work in order for you to receive the required grade to pass the course.

 

[takethepoints]

Okay, I lied, well, was mistaken. MATLAB became a product in 1984. However, when I was an undergraduate a couple of years later, we did not use MATLAB nor did we have a class requirement to learn it. I learned FORTRAN77, and I learned it badly.

Look on the bright side. You didn't have to wrestle - and that is the right word - with RPG, the supposedly easy "language" that IBM used. What an unbelievable mess that thing was. FORTRAN is, at least, pretty straightforward. Unbelievably difficult for someone who flunked three required math courses in college, but usually it was easy to see where you screwed up, even if you couldn't figure how to fix it.

 

[4shotB]

I take it your professors believed in the objective reality that the programs you wrote in Fortran needed to work in order for you to receive the required grade to pass the course.

I don't know about his, but mine were pretty "inside the box" thinkers like that. I noticed that, in any disputes over correct or incorrect answers, they (meaning any and all GT profs) always defaulted to their own perceptions of reality over mine. I found it all rather stuffy and rigid to be frank. Also, judgemental. How did they get to decide what is right and wrong???