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    College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now

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    Image of GlenTen GlenTen
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    1993: Microfiche and the photocopier.
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    Image of ottermann killed Kenny ottermann killed Kenny
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    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 that wonderful aroma.....good times, good times....
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    Image of AlphaPepper AlphaPepper
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now

    Sun SPARCstation was hotness later in my college years.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    08/19/09

    @AlphaPepper: Sun makes the best computers by far. I wish I could afford one for the house.
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    Image of AlphaPepper AlphaPepper
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now

    These were just being phased out when I started college in 1987.
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    08/19/09

    @AlphaPepper: The VT100 had one of the most awesome klacky keyboards... *sigh*
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    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 girl that had one of those two way message pagers.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    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 Comadore 64s around but I never saw them.
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    have you ever used DC++?

    ...you're welcome
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    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 into the room with the HP terminals that were connected to the mainframe. I kept my homework on a cassette tape or just printed it out on the dot matrix when I was ready to turn it in. No one had a computer for themselves. They ran a couple of thousand dollars each and back then that was a lot of money.If we needed to type anything we went to the typing room where they had a dozen or so IBM Selectrics.
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    Image of Invisible-Echidna Invisible-Echidna
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    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 of technology over the years. Made a good start to an afternoon of sitting around.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    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 mylar. My last few semesters we had made the leap to computerized cartography and computerized GIS.

    It actually helped me out in the first few years out of college, because I could do either type of mapping.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    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 and enslave the minds of millions of teenagers and the elderly across the world.
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    08/19/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: anexanhume is unsure what you mean.
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    08/19/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: It's hard to de-friend your aunt. But really satisfying at the same time.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    08/19/09

    @anexanhume aka Flintheart Glomgold: Initially, Facebook was a college networking website. You needed a .edu address from a specific school to open an account. For example, you'd be able to sign up if you were Zuckerman@harvard.edu but not if you were Zuckerman@caltech.edu. I remember people getting upset when Facebook opened its membership to high school students; it felt like we were being violated somehow. Eventually, Facebook dropped all membership barriers and now everyone can join. The fastest growing demographic among Facebook members is now peple of age 40 or older. At this point, my mom uses Facebook more often than I do.
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    08/19/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: WHOOOOOSSSSSHHHH
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    Image of GiltProto GiltProto
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    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 8080 (but using Z80's in the computers) we saved things online. But everyone would back up their files on 5 inch floppies - just to be safe.
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    08/19/09

    @GiltProto: I remember doing the punch card thing with FORTRAN as well. Since it involved a trek across campus to the card reader, a wait to get your printout after your job ran, and a trek back across to the library to read the damn thing to figure out what went wrong... My vote for great invention goes to terminal servers.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    FAIL!

    It doesn't contain the word processor, the bastard child of a memory typewriter and a 286.
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    Image of jdale jdale
    08/19/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: And yet the electronic typewriter does rate mention. Boggling.

    I started using a word processor on the Commodore 128 in high school. It was years before any word processor on the PC caught up to all the features that Commodore word processor had, crazy stuff like displaying italicized words in italics and whatnot.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    08/19/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Well, we still do use word processors - just souped up versions with pictures and internet and stuff.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    08/19/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I still have my Xerox Memowriter and I'll bet you it still works.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    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 annoying as hell on an e-reader or laptop, at least for now.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    08/19/09

    @Segador: Annotations and bookmarks are features on an e-reader.

    Alhtough, one thing you won't find on textbooks: search.
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    08/19/09

    In reply to College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now
    Programmable graphing calculators FTW. I could teach it to do my homework AND play Tetris during dull lectures.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    08/19/09

    @Fractal the Meek: Same here, TI-85 (before I got a laptop and Mathcad). I just couldn't fathom the idea of how people would get the root locus of a transfer function without it.
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