Hmm. I worked on the project that put SPSS together. Cards. Stacks of
cards. Hated keying those cards; probably two bad ones for every one
that came out right. Big IBM 360/67 in a building the size of
gymnasium. One day, I loaded a stack in, went into the snack bar, put
in change for a coke, pushed the button and the whole bloody system
crashed. I was almost convinced I'd caused it. When the system was up
again, at least a week later, all our data was interspersed with data
from the Stanford Hospital... Sat through hours of classes in Fortran
IV. The project finally moved on to the University of Chicago; I was
invited to go, too, but then I watched the riots at the Chicago
Democratic Convention and decided that was one of the last places I
wanted to go.
Never touched another computer until I got my hands on my sister's
Mac Classic.
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