Majoring in Mechanical Engineering

[Chris Fultz]

Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

Of course back when I went to school we did our computer programming on punch cards and I was thrilled to buy a calculator that did trig functions. And we had to build our own computers, yeah that's it.

We must have been in school at the same time. And the computer we built took up one whole floor of the engineering building.

Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

And I had to walk uphill in the snow 5 miles to class.

We had hills, too. Uphill, Both ways. And we had snow when it 110F in the shade. Except I lived in a rich district, so we had a bus. No engine, though. So we pushed it to and from school. It was a lot of work, but we could put our book bags inside. No wait, that was before bookbags, we tied them together with an old belt. And our books were heavier, and had more problems in them.