sb wrote:
I remember 1970. Learned programming on a PDP-8 computer which had a whopping 64kb of memory - but took up a whole room with an elevated floor for ventilation to keep everything cool. Programs were entered via punch-cards. I went with my faculty advisor for a visit to an HP plant outside of Boston and they showed us a prototype of a new thing called a "pocket calculator" that could add, subtract, multiply, divide AND do square roots! It was AWESOME! It was going to be sold for $800. This device quickly made the slide rule obsolete, thus nullifying a skill many of us had painstakingly learned.
I don't believe they had digital cameras then! :)
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