Yep. I was just a couple years too late for a lot of tech. In high school, they retired the card punch and card reader the year before. In college there were st

Yep. I was just a couple years too late for a lot of tech. In high school, they retired the card punch and card reader the year before. In college there were still card decks being run and bins of printouts but everything new was being done on glass TTYs. We had teletypes in a few labs but only once did I ever see one used when we got one working again to play with. I wonder if the kids a few years behind me say things like "they stopped using floppies right before I started" or "I never did see a dot-matrix printer actually print". I also wish there was a simple micro out there. I still have an old senior design project sitting in a drawer at Tampa Hackerspace. It's a Jeopardy style quiz show buzzer system built from a Z80 (old even when we used it), I think a 8255 (because I had a pile of them), a little TTL glue, a EPROM with a few hundred lines of hand-assembled code, no RAM, and a 555 timer for a clock. The clock is so slow that we also used it for the audio for the buzzer. It's been a fun board to haul out and throw on a logic analyzer to show people. Can't probe the address bus on an ARM or Atmel. But kids today probably look at that like I used to look at tube testers.