Rutherford Staying at GT

tmhunter52

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gtee91 said:
No..it was great...of course i had always been an avid swimmer...had to drag a few classmates out of the deep end who did not enjoy it as much 🙃
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Haha! I got credit for drown-proofing by playing baseball for Tech. That, personal
satisfaction and moving to the front of the line in Heisman gym for course selections, was what I got as a student athlete. (They didn’t offer baseball scholarships or aid back in those days…)
 
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g0lftime said:
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!!!
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I worked at robbery and likely sold the KE or Post slide rule to you or fellow tech student.

I to did the xx#@!! typo on one damn card and the mfxx$% computer spit out and didnt run my program. But my business life was changed when i bought the ibm 64 64 pc w printers. Quit a great job and started my own engr company and never looked back.
 

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iceeater1969 said:
I worked at robbery and likely sold the KE or Post slide rule to you or fellow tech student.

I to did the xx#@!! typo on one damn card and the mfxx$% computer spit out and didnt run my program. But my business life was changed when i bought the ibm 64 64 pc w printers. Quit a great job and started my own engr company and never looked back.
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Ice,
One of the my lowest points at Tech was cold Windy winter night when I picked up my punch cards (Fortran) outside the computer bldg and the rubber band holding them BROKE. The wind carried then everywhere. Only 5 hrs time mostly lost in a second. ---ah, Tech.
 

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I had a guy for Dynamics, maybe Armstrong (everyone called him liver lips), who came to class with his slide rule in a case on his belt. About half way through the quarter he came in with a HP 35. He was working a problem on the board and started punching numbers on his calculator, and after several attempts got out his slide rule to finish the calculation. When I tell younger folks that story they look at me like I can’t possibly be telling the truth.
 
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I don't know what 0 or 1 based computer programming is and we didn't have a computer school when I was there. But I do remember assignments in Basic language and it was a snap.
 

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Got to Tech at the time slide rules were becoming obsolete, never did use one. Had a simple Radio Shack calculator that didn’t do much more than multiply or divide. The serious nerds all had one of the Texas Instruments TI-35 models. As an architectural major never had to take any computer courses. I do recall friends coming back from the computer center literally in tears because their program had been spit back at them.
 
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gtee91 said:
No..it was great...of course i had always been an avid swimmer...had to drag a few classmates out of the deep end who did not enjoy it as much 🙃
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Man, me too. I never remember NOT knowing how to swim. I was shocked that you could be 20 yrs old and not know.

I had an A after a few weeks. I spent most of my team rescuing other kids.
 
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