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

[MIKE ZANE]

What the heck are all those things you guys are talking about?  Mike n6zw
> On 04/26/2021 11:18 AM Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> 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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