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They didn’t wear lab coats. That’s for chemists and biologists.

• lutusp 2y ago
  Decades ago, primarily for show, computer technicians wore lab coats, in a glassed-in facility at the University of Colorado. To gain access to the computer one would punch a set of 80-column cards and pass them through a little window into the hands of a person who apparently lived in a separate, elevated, dimension. Debugging an otherwise trivial program was often a multi-week nightmare. It was my first exposure to the world of computing. Ten years later, hand calculators appeared and the ridiculousness of the entire show was revealed for all to see.