RISE & Shine on Louisiana's Campus

[cajun_lannister]

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 we only had 1 computer lab in Rouge with Autocad the struggle was real

[CajunVic]

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!!!!!

[LaCajunsFan]

Awesome news heard they are getting ready to build a new Engineering hall the one we have now is too small for the department

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?

[ULGrad@HOU]

I will never forget Dr. Anderson standing on a chair in front of the Thermodynamics class proclaiming that "steam was not an ideal gas". I thought to myself, "well yeah thats why we have the steam tables". I guess some did not want to take the time to look up the required information in the steam tables and just apply ideal gas theory to steam.

Nice, he must have made quite an impression on you. I draw a huge blank when it comes to Thermo, I do remember the book was green

[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.