Re Day to data, for one of my grad MIS electives on 1974 I wrote my paper on IBM’s dominance in Europe. As an undergrad I took a one credit course called intro to computing, where IBM mainframes were the only real player, and I learned about Babbage and Hollerith and the history of IBM, and where I started using punch card D’s, which lasted into the mid-1980’s, doing regression analysis on the university main frame. I bought my first ‘portable’ computer, a forty pound Kaypro with two floppy drives — in 1983. At Marquette in the late 1980’s I managed the changeover from one ‘floppy disk’ to two, and then to the original hard drives. Lots of good memories of now ancient technology.
Re Day to data, for one of my grad MIS electives on 1974 I wrote my paper on IBM’s dominance in Europe. As an undergrad I took a one credit course called intro to computing, where IBM mainframes were the only real player, and I learned about Babbage and Hollerith and the history of IBM, and where I started using punch card D’s, which lasted into the mid-1980’s, doing regression analysis on the university main frame. I bought my first ‘portable’ computer, a forty pound Kaypro with two floppy drives — in 1983. At Marquette in the late 1980’s I managed the changeover from one ‘floppy disk’ to two, and then to the original hard drives. Lots of good memories of now ancient technology.