A punch-card version of Google.
It'll return the first eight hits and then kick you over to a version that isn't fifty years old.
And if that isn't enough for you, try your hand at a virtual slide rule, with more of them here.
Just Imagine Band on the Run
28 minutes ago
That was a blast from the past.
ReplyDeleteUp until a year or two ago the national Automotive Cert Board used the updated version: fill in the appropriate dot with your pencil. At work I diagnosed computer versus input/output signal problems by watching wavelengths on an oscilloscope, at Test time it was like Grade School.
They finally went to computer based testing.
w3ski
And Slide rules! I remember people carrying them but that was right about the time that computers began to exist. I am a child of the electronic age. In 9th grade we were taught to scavenge parts from dismantled Nike Rockets to make simple electronic novelties.
Deletew3ski
I programmed with punch cards in high school. My biggest program was around 100 cards, but I saw others with stacks and stacks of cards. With punch cards, debugging is not a programmer's only heartache. Folds, rips, and dog-ears become serious business.
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