Rediff - Dilid D'Souza: "The postal service was about the only
means of communicating with the outside world -- we had no email, no faxes, no couriers, no mobile phones, no smoke signals, and trunk calls were fitful at best. Chai was 50 paise a cup, the vendor who raised his price to 75 paise in my fourth year sparking a wave of student protests. Haircuts cost a rupee; massage included. A room-sized device that read punched cards and was labelled 'IBM 1130' was what we called a computer, one machine shared by an entire college."
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
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