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I'm an economics prof at a small, private college in Pennsylvania, USA.

My computer experience goes back to the Control Data Corp 6400, complete with punch cards for JCL, FORTRAN, and SPSS, and time-share BASIC. I could even dial in from home (a Heathkit H-19 terminal) through a (gasp!) 110-baud (I kid you not) Radio Shack modem.

Then we moved, and I used an IBM mainframe of some sort, with JCL and SAS (no more punch cards or dial-up modems though :(), an original IBM-PC and -XT when they became available, and a Heathkit H-89 (I think) desktop computer at home.

Now, it's Windows at work (XP/Vista), where teaching involves undergraduates and spreadsheets or a statistics program (Minitab or SPSS). Research involves those tools, OpenOffice, and (drum roll) Python, of course.

At home, we run Netgear and laptops, all running Ubuntu with OpenOffice and Python, a little Gimp, whatever.

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HatGuy

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