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2026-03-28 12:11 UTC
@DavidPenington@aus.social @asakiyume@wandering.shop @rgammans@dice.camp @janeishly@beige.party I was just barely too young to really have contact with the punch cards/batch processing model of computing, but it was definitely still hanging around at the time I started.
It's of a piece with the way I was too young to be taught to use a slide rule in school, but only just barely: affordable scientific calculators appeared while I was learning arithmetic.
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@DavidPenington@aus.social 2026-03-28 22:50
@mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz @asakiyume@wandering.shop @rgammans@dice.camp @janeishly@beige.party The teacher who had the computer wrote one of the last slide rule text books ever published! I did learn to use one. I remember dad bringing home the expensive calculator he had brought for his medical practice - $50 in about 1970 with a 6 digit display & a button to push to show the 6 highest digits. Basic arithmetic only, suitable for calculating medical bills.