RISE & Shine on Louisiana's Campus

[CajunNation]

Long hand and manual calculations. Party land lines. Turn dial TV's with 3 channels. 8 track tapes and maybe cassettes. Role your window up by hand. That's what it was when I was in school.

No calculators, cell phones, computers, smart phones, email, internet, electric windows, remote control TV's.

No big red carts like Frenchie has. Just drive to Cajun Field and catch the un-air conditioned bus to campus. Play cards at the top of the Mr. Cook.

Things were great!!!!!

No.

They were better.

[BeauCajun]

Long hand and manual calculations. Party land lines. Turn dial TV's with 3 channels. 8 track tapes and maybe cassettes. Role your window up by hand. That's what it was when I was in school.

No calculators, cell phones, computers, smart phones, email, internet, electric windows, remote control TV's.

No big red carts like Frenchie has. Just drive to Cajun Field and catch the un-air conditioned bus to campus. Play cards at the top of the Mr. Cook.

Things were great!!!!!

Sounds like my college experience. Spent many hours upstairs at Burger Chef with my Erath/Delcambre crew.

[CajunVic]

we probably played cards against each other

[ULGrad@HOU]

I guess I'm a little older since the first programmable calculators where just starting to show up and weren't allowed for classes. Block lettering and how to use a slide rule used to be one of the first classes. My Fortran class required using the IBM tape drive computer with key punch cards located in Martin Hall.

Well, slide rules may have still been around when I was there, I seem to remember some of the mechanical and civil guys talking about them. Another class we didn't have to take that others did was drafting, we had plenty of other classes to make up for it though.

[HelmutVII]

I have my Post Versalog Slide Rule and my HP 35 calculator in a shadow box on the wall of my office.

[ULGrad@HOU]

This is fun....my time was apple II's & IIc's, the Commadore 64, VHS, Analog to Digital converters, Pascal, assembly, PL1 language, cassettes with the intro to CD's, MTV, Sony walkman II. I did my 30 minute senior speech presentation on the technology behind CD's.

[CajunAmos]

This is fun....my time was apple II's & IIc's, the Commadore 64, VHS, Analog to Digital converters, Pascal, assembly, PL1 language, cassettes with the intro to CD's, MTV, Sony walkman II. I did my 30 minute senior speech presentation on the technology behind CD's.

I took PL1 after we got the Honeywell and had a grad assistant for good amount of classes. He took me up to the lab which had a room full of various manufacturer personal computers that were sent to the university to see how they worked and identify any issues. Some were the size of a four drawer file cabinet. That was the first time I saw a touch screen monitor which used a pen to make contact with the glass for a lunar lander simulation game. I have to say I had big eyes for all the "new age" stuff in that room.

Also remember playing what I think was the first version of Zork on the "games" portion of the system.

[cajun_lannister]

I keep hearing about a new engineering building, but don't know how real it is. Can anyone confirm this, and if so, where are they planning on building it? In the same location? An entirely new building, or just expansion and renovation of Madison?

My cousin said she saw the plans on zappys desk and its a new building behind the computer science hall

[CajunAmos]

My cousin said she saw the plans on zappys desk and its a new building behind the computer science hall

Can I ask where the computer science hall is located?

[ULGrad@HOU]

Can I ask where the computer science hall is located?

The new Quad. Old McNaspy stadium.

[ULGrad@HOU]

My cousin said she saw the plans on zappys desk and its a new building behind the computer science hall

I guess I think of Madison being behind the Computer Science Building, maybe part of the future Quad?

[LaCajunsFan]

Can I ask where the computer science hall is located?

Oliver Hall, which has Madison in its back yard. So I don't understand where he's referencing.