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rossdavidh
Next up, Gen-X programmers trying to use the card reader.
salawat
I always wanted to do that actually.
emsy
Yeah same here, I also always jokingly wondered why the CS curriculum doesn’t include history of CS, similar to history of wizardry in Harry Potter but the older I get, the more i think this would be a reasonable idea, if it would discuss what we tried and what did and didn’t work.
tata71
Or worked until we needed *
alexvoda
Totally endorse this idea. Also, I'd also like to try using a card reader and puncher. I find punched tape even more fascinating.
KptMarchewa
My university offered history of mathematics and computer science as a humanities elective.
melony
Call me old fashioned but back in my day we used punch cards.
numpad0
You 3D printed that Among Us task thing!?
telesilla
Back in the day of learning sound engineering I had to learn to splice tape for a year and use the analog studios before we were allowed to use the digital studio. I am not sure I learned anything specifically that made me a better engineer but I really really enjoyed the analog workflows, even though they were so slow and painful you really needed to think ahead and be mindful.
j_not_j
Followed by trying to put the cards back in order after dropping them.
tamaharbor
Using a rotary phone at an older hotel recently, my 10 year old asked, “Wow, how did you know how to do that?”
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shirro
Lived in a student accommodation (pre-mobile but after most rotary dialers) which had a phone for receiving incoming calls which had no touchpad or dialer on it to "prevent" students making calls but otherwise was an ordinary line. The phone system recognised two signalling types, touch tones and the older pulses sent by rotary dials. It was possible to simulate a rotary dialer by tapping the hook switch the number of times of the digit or 10 for zero with a pause between each digit.
0xdeadb00f
That is one _massive_ URL full of tracking parameters, etc.