Daz Type-R Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 If anybody makes it down to Ruddington, Experian (where I work) has a data centre down there and the front of the building looks like a giant punch card. Ahhhh, punch cards, before my time I'm happy to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Punched cards - now you are talking real technology. As with Kim proper magnetic core on the old ICL 1900 series, with a huge piece of paper to mark the lights that were left on when it crashed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Strings Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 This is starting to sound like the four yorkshire men sketch. I started on a ZX spectrum, commodore 64, 386 laptop running windows 3.1, a succession of desktops with increasingly crap versions of windows. Got a macbook pro last year. And relax!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Doctor Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 And from PCs to pocket calculators. My first one after my abacus was a small Sinclair one that had reverse polish notation similar to an HP. I never got on with it so binned it in favour of a Casio FX39 which didn't fit in my pocket lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Did my HND final year project on punched cards. Character terminals didn't come till the end of my degree. But we had Casio calculators by then - just didn't need 'em any more cos of computers lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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