I don't remember anyone at college with a laptop.
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I went to college with a slide rule.
Me, too. At least the first couple of years. My freshman chem lab instructor had the first calculator I ever saw, a brand new Sharp four function job that he'd paid $295 for. By my junior year I was borrowing my little brother's four function plus sqrt. They were down to about $100 by then.
Still have several slide rules hanging around the house.
I was on the border. A few students had computers. There were Mac labs for the rest of this, with the little tiny macs in them. IBM machines did not have windows, so were only for computer type people. I used a typewriter because I lived at home and it was easier than driving in to use the computer. It had a word processing feature, but I rarely used it. I did become adept at changing typos/revising with white out, and then Xeroxing the paper so that it looked clean (because we were allowed three errors per page without point taken off) This was in 1991-1995. In 1995 students started getting email, but I thought it was weird and didn't like it. Also it was absurdly easy to hack in to as your password was your name. Some of my friends send fake love emails from our department head to students and caused a brou-ha-ha.
I didn't use a laptop until my last master's program...1999-2001.
I was the only person in the program who used one. Once it became known that I took awesome notes with it, I became hugely popular.
There was, of course, the occasional dominoes game...
Coding question:
I finally got most of the pages framed for the new site. Text is coming.
Just now, I added the constant contact sign up form to most of the pages. On the homepage, I'd like to move the box to the right of the screen, between the leaves and flame.
Each time I've tried to do that, I've somehow managed to splinch the flame.
Is it possible to move the box over there, and if so, what do I need to add to the code?
Humble thanks, as always.
I had three computers. Four, for a while. Of course, me = CS dork.
I was definitely seeing the shift towards Mac laptops when I graduated, but they were rare when I first got there - OS X was still pretty new. I bought my first Mac (white iBook G3) sophomore year, my second one (PowerMac G5) my junior year, and have never gone back.
No computer, though a few people had portable laptops. I did have a portable manual typewriter.
Oh no! What did I do?
I rechecked the link code and it was right, but since then I tried to delete the message twice and it's still there.
Oh jeez.
Fixed, Bonny.
Bless you!