Nah it was Olympics -- Hoke 01/16/2022 8:05PM
I wasn’t engineering (Arch) but we got slide rules. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 01/16/2022 5:13PM
I had to keypunch cards in order to run Fortran programs. ** -- Hokie`79 01/16/2022 4:49PM
Best confetti that has ever been. ** -- VaTaz 01/16/2022 6:14PM
Same class IBM PC with two 5-1/4 Floppy Drive no Hard Drive $2,500 worked -- jdkhokie 01/16/2022 4:20PM
Sounds about right. I built my first from scratch and the Seagate... -- HokieJay 01/16/2022 10:01PM
And they recommended the dual drive version -- MAHokie69 01/16/2022 7:32PM
Monochrome monitor, DOS, maybe VisiCalc and WordPerfect ** -- Brown Water 01/16/2022 4:32PM
U are right…that was the price….same as tuition, room and board in-state** -- MrBayAreaHokie 01/16/2022 4:29PM
Fortran max max sucks ** -- astrohokie 01/16/2022 4:03PM
Still has no idea what Dr.Harrison Fortran/EF 1oo6, taught----> ** -- bourbonstreet 01/16/2022 5:36PM
Fortran IV With Watfor and Watfiv is what I remember and I have no -- Femoyer Hokie 01/16/2022 4:17PM
Same. Keypunch cards. One program deck never compiled. Even after redo! ** -- ColoVT82 01/16/2022 4:55PM
No kidding. I just remember a big stack of keypunch cards 🤮 ** -- UEMcGill 01/16/2022 4:46PM
And my stack *never* worked. Just wanted to shuffle the deck at times. ** -- Femoyer Hokie 01/16/2022 4:48PM
Punch cards -------------------> ** -- Brown Water 01/16/2022 3:42PM
Yup. Knew where all the lesser used card punchers were. -- HokieJay 01/16/2022 8:34PM
Continuous Do Loop king------>>>> ** -- Stork 01/16/2022 5:35PM
Never forget a girl crossing the drill field with a tall stack of cards and -- turkeywinghokie 01/16/2022 4:49PM
In the basement of Burruss Hall. ** -- Femoyer Hokie 01/16/2022 3:48PM
Been there, dt. ** -- astrohokie 01/16/2022 4:03PM
Had some hanging Chads issues at VT ----------------------------------->> ** -- UTPr0sim 01/16/2022 3:43PM
Don’t drop them on the drill field 😂** -- MrBayAreaHokie 01/16/2022 3:42PM
I was in the first that could buy calculators (we still learned sliderule) ** -- UTPr0sim 01/16/2022 3:40PM
Mid-late 70s? ** -- Brown Water 01/16/2022 4:19PM
Early 70s. Started in 72, bought my first HP in 73. They would not let us -- UTPr0sim 01/16/2022 9:28PM
I remember having games on my TI-83 in high school. ** -- MP4VT2004 01/16/2022 3:39PM