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Re:An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence by losteverything on Thursday August 17, 2017 @12:41PM (#15038339)
Nothing about computers back then was social. There was no social component. Programs done by yourself, at a keypunch. Output read by yourself. Hard to study in groups. You can't really have a debate about the sign bit.

Pre-wed majors were social.. Comp sci was not

Re:An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence by rjsw on Thursday August 17, 2017 @12:47PM (#15038400)
I was a CS student at the same time as the author. Undergraduate programming was done in rooms with multiple terminals so it could be social if you wanted it to be.