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I remember punch cards.
omg you should TOTALLY put that on your resume
*rob*
You guys went to college?
Lucky.
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I don’t remember any big graduation gifts. We did go out for dinner.
my grandparents wanted to take me out to dinner right after graduation but i was being a brat and i told them to just leave and that i didnt want to go out to dinner 🙁 and then my grandfather died and i totally regretted not going out to dinner with them.
ugh im all full of the sad today
*rob*
I remember punch cards. My dad would bring home ‘scrapped’ cards for us to draw on and play with. The card readers were fun to watch.
“how did people look at porn before computers?”
some people stole it from their older brothers.
My first job, summer after high school graduation was working for a bank and one half of the floor was an area for IBM computers with punch cards; it was a football field which did the banks payroll and the information was fed into the computer by stacks and stacks of cards, keypunched by an army of keypunch operators. Ancient history.
I don’t remember any big graduation gifts. We did go out for dinner. My parents also helped a lot with furniture etc when I moved down to London a couple of months later.
It’s true, DIBS! My Mac is probably as (or more) powerful as that entire room/floor I visited back then.
I am sure I got a lot of envelopes for my high school graduation, but my college graduation went by without any notice/recognition. In retrospect, I guess that is a little sad, but for me college was part of a living/working/studying/PAYING experience. I took care of everything. When I graduated, it was almost anti-climatic.