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From: Ellen Greever <greever>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:18:02 -0600
Well, I'm not at all sure about the data entry being anachronistic. There was plenty of punch card data entry going on by the even the early 70s. Those were the days of writing a program, typing it onto punch cards, praying that you had no typos, and then batch processing. The data entry would have been for large companies doing the first record-keeping on computers. Ellen Greever (who started college in 1980 thinking she wanted to be a computer engineer) UW-Milwaukee
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[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Meg Robertson Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 12:11 PM To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject: [CCBC-Net] time frame in Criss Cross
At our mock Newbery discussion, anachronistic elements in Criss Cross were also brought up. The older sister doing data entry for a computer company as a summer job was one, another was the mention of the casual poses of senior photos in the yearbook. We all agreed that if this were the 1970s as we thought it was, that senior yearbook photots were still very straightforward studio portraits.
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:18:02 -0600
Well, I'm not at all sure about the data entry being anachronistic. There was plenty of punch card data entry going on by the even the early 70s. Those were the days of writing a program, typing it onto punch cards, praying that you had no typos, and then batch processing. The data entry would have been for large companies doing the first record-keeping on computers. Ellen Greever (who started college in 1980 thinking she wanted to be a computer engineer) UW-Milwaukee
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Meg Robertson Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 12:11 PM To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject: [CCBC-Net] time frame in Criss Cross
At our mock Newbery discussion, anachronistic elements in Criss Cross were also brought up. The older sister doing data entry for a computer company as a summer job was one, another was the mention of the casual poses of senior photos in the yearbook. We all agreed that if this were the 1970s as we thought it was, that senior yearbook photots were still very straightforward studio portraits.
-- Meg Lloyd Robertson Assistant Branch Manager Maplewood Library mroberts at rclreads.org (651)704-2033 -- _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-netReceived on Mon 20 Feb 2006 12:18:02 PM CST
