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more about #university more comments → GlenTen: 1993: Microfiche and the photocopier. more » ottermann killed Kenny: None of my schools had computers. Heck, I remember going to schools that didn't have Xerox machines. They had mimeographs. Ah.....purple fingers, and ... more » AlphaPepper: Sun SPARCstation was hotness later in my college years. more » AlphaPepper: These were just being phased out when I started college in 1987. more » reddingofish: The third and final time I went to college was much later. By then everyone had PCs running Windows and message pagers were all the rage. I knew one... more » reddingofish: The second time I went to college the school I went to didn't have a computer programing major so no one had computers. There may have been some Coma... more » discounteggroll: have you ever used DC++? ...you're welcome more » reddingofish: The first time I went to collage we had to sign up for times to use the IBM PCs that ran Basic just like in that picture. The smart people got to go i... more » Invisible-Echidna: I couldn't imagine waking up to the 70's with 5 1/4 floppies knowing I take shits bigger than 100kb. This was a cool look at the most popular pieces o... more » EBone: I majored in Geography in college, and I was on the cutting edge of technology. My first few semesters we were still doing cartography with ink and my... more » Hello Mister Walrus: When I went to college, Facebook was in its infancy, being only offered to students of a few universities. Little did we know that Facebook would grow... more » GiltProto: When I took FORTRAN in college it was the last semester they used paper punch cards. Fortunately when I took the assembly language course for the 808... more » OMG! Ponies!: FAIL! It doesn't contain the word processor, the bastard child of a memory typewriter and a 286. more » Segador: I don't ever see e-readers or laptops taking the place of textbooks. Studying takes tons of flipping back and forth and note-taking, both of which are... more » Fractal the Meek: Programmable graphing calculators FTW. I could teach it to do my homework AND play Tetris during dull lectures. more » -
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College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
From 35mm SLRs in the 50s to electronic-typewriters of the 80s, PC World has a timeline of gadgets that most changed campus life. For me, it was a giant CRT (which doubled as my room heater). What about you? More » -
