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In 1967 our neighbor ran the new computer lab at my college, and he was very 
enthusiastic about the possibilities of computers.  I was curious so I took a 
course and the neighbor told me that it was the first one they'd taught using 
punch cards instead of changing the wiring on motherboards. I don't remember 
the language or the brand of computer.  I wrote a program to reproduce a 
simple design, a square within a square, and I remember struggling and 
punching and re-punching cards to get myself out of an infinite loop which 
turned out to be because of missing punctuation.

Eventually in the 80's I learned COBOL and worked on a bunch of ancient 
machines from IBM-360s to Univac to Burroughs to Motorola and so forth.  That 
was when computer knowledge was proprietary.  Now you can find answers to most 
computer problems by asking questions in google or any other search engine.

Susan Fitch Brown, CRM, MLS
Records Manager
Team Ke'aki
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