Delete comment from: Ken Shirriff's blog
So cool! In 1968, I went to a technical high school because my dad really wanted me to ¨get into computers¨ as he saw it as the future of all things to come. The spaghetti board typified our school technology. The instructor was in love with the damn thing. It looked like a washing machine to me and for the life of me, I had no idea how programming was to be done with all those wires to be plugged in and out. I was a terrible typist too and could never get my punch cards to run anything. I gave up and tried to get into Surveying but back then ¨girls¨ weren´t allowed in the program because you had to wear jeans in the field. I´ve often wondered what that thing was that I had tried to program so it was really great to find the pictures. Thanks!
Mar 19, 2025, 7:01:46 PM
Posted to Reverse-engineering a mysterious Univac computer board