Have you ever thought (or been told) that you were born in the wrong time? When in history do you think you would best ‘fit in’?
Since I just LOVE electronics and computers and all that geek stuff, I guess I was born in the right time to have all these wonderful devices. Who would’ve thought that I can listen to hundreds of songs from a device smaller than an egg, send a message across the globe and get a response back in seconds, meet wonderful new friends from all the blogging, and I could go on and on.
I got my degree in Computer Science back in the late ’70s and things were so basic and new back then when it came to computers. Since I lived in rural Missouri then and marriage seemed to be the right answer and not leaving to work in computers. People in my area wouldn’t hire me, because I was over qualified with my degree. I guess it scared some folks. Oh well, the life of a geek.
We used keypunch cards back then and I needed a shoe box just to carry all the cards for a simple program. (I had wrote a program on how to make a Wendy’s hamburger many ways). For those who don’t know what key punch cards are, when you write computer program, each line of the program was punched out on a card. So, if your program was hundreds of lines long, well you can imagine how many cards a person would have to carry around.
These pictures show a type of computer that was used back then and a sample of the key punch cards.

I also wrote a term paper in English class about debit cards. I just loved that idea of not having to carry much in a purse. I hate purses!! Anyway, I did some serious research on the idea and wrote, what I thought, a wonderful term paper. Well, my teacher didn’t think so. When I got my paper back, she said she didn’t understand the concept of debit cards, so my research didn’t back it up and she gave me a C on it!! I couldn’t believe it. How could anyone not understand the concept of a Debit Card and my research was right on. But then, she kept a picture of Dolly Parton on her desk, so that might explain a lot there.
Maybe I was born before my time.
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