Our College Experience - Trinity University (San Antonio)

In 1968 when we started college in San Antonio (a long ways from the Massachusetts colleges back East we had been approved for admission into), we switched from a pre-med major (couldn't deal with all the dead stuff) to a math/Computer Science major.

Pretty soon, the computer center people gave us a $1.10 per hour job as the Night shift computer operator whose responsibility mostly consisted of running student jobs (feeding the punched card reader) and restacking paper from the high speed (1200 lines per minute) IBM 1403N1 Chain printer (a $50,000 monstrosity that spewed paper all over the place).

Little did they realize what they where doing. They turned us into night people, After we shut the computer down for students at about 1:00 AM, we then had our own personal computer until 6:00 in the morning.

Our personal Computer in 1968, an IBM 360 Model 44PS with 64K memory, (2) 7MB hard drives, 2 High Speed tape drives and a card reader/punch and printer. About $500,000 at the time.

Pictured below is a similar setup.

IBM 360 Model 50