08-08-2023, 05:16 PM
I did use punch cards (as a student). Also used tape and ZIP disks.
I did a presentation on IT jobs to 13-14yo students in a high school north-west of Paris. They never noticed that they were surrounded by data centers. The area was an industrial area in the 60s, and many plants have been reconverted to data centers. Even in my somewhat affluent northwestern suburb, there are two football fields worth of data centers not so far away (you hear the fans whizz during hot nights).
I did a presentation on IT jobs to 13-14yo students in a high school north-west of Paris. They never noticed that they were surrounded by data centers. The area was an industrial area in the 60s, and many plants have been reconverted to data centers. Even in my somewhat affluent northwestern suburb, there are two football fields worth of data centers not so far away (you hear the fans whizz during hot nights).