[Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class, ~1975

[Bill Frantz]

OK, I can't resist any longer.

On 4/26/21 at 11:33 AM, lawresh at woh.rr.com (SteveL) wrote:

>Who carried around a CRC book of tables of various calculations in lieu of an unaffordable scientific calculator?
Yup.

>Or programming FORTRAN on punch cards?
Yup. At first on a IBM 650 with a 4 pass compiler, intermediate 
storage on punch cards.

>Or PDP-8 on paper tape after toggling in the boot loader through the front panel switches?
Sorry, mine was a Varian 620/i (8K of 16 bit words) used for 
nodes in a circuit switched data network (Tymnet). :-)

73 Bill AE6JV

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