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2026-05-11 21:23 UTC
@cstross@wandering.shop @chris_bloke@mastodon.acm.org @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @TheJen@beige.party
Cool!
My Mom was a part of Dartmouth's trial-run of their first BASIC class, they having drafted in any non-professorial staff that were STEM-ish; she also sat in on the trial of a revised Statistics class. All before I was born, mid 1950s.
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@n1vux@mastodon.radio 2026-05-11 21:28
@cstross@wandering.shop @chris_bloke@mastodon.acm.org @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @TheJen@beige.party Mom got a home computer in the early 1980. She gave me a very tight budget for a portable _and_ printer, so Osborne O-1 it was, that's what she could afford for Dissertation support for her return-for-terminal-degree. She's 93, so not taking on new technology now. (Dad eventually got used to Word Star and dot-matric printer since it could cut ditto and mimeo masters for school use, and was not happy with eventual transition to MS WINDOWS!)