'The CD can store information to the size of 800 floppy disks...'

14 & 15 September 2000 | PG Days

#memoriesfromdiaries 💛

Yes! As you see in the opening jottings of my diary, both morning & noon attended classes!

Morning I had my PG English classes.

Afternoons I had my PGDCA classes.

from my personal diary entry, 15 September 2000

Our Professors used to entrust us with some ‘professorial responsibilities’ once in a while, that stood us all in good stead!

Added motivation to become teachers, you see! 😍

We had Composition Hours for the General English students, and Prof. PN & Prof.EM usually called for us – PG Students to conduct those classes!

It involved distributing the Composition Note books, making them write on a given topic, take attendance, etc.

Yet another interesting routine we practised in our Department was –

Whenever an inter-collegiate event happened, the department usually conducted intra-departmental competitions among the students and thereby choose the best ones to represent the Department.

Today, in like fashion, we had Essay Writing competition, and I was selected to represent the Department at Arcadia 2000 – the Inter-collegiate culturals organized by Lady Doak College, Madurai.

Our team [Sakthivel, Wes & myself] was also selected to represent the Department for the Dumb Charades event!

Since computers were new for most of us back then, a few of us used to take extra coaching on how to use the PC, from our Computer Science Professors.

My first ever tutorial was on the various parts of the Computer!

Prof. John Raybin (senior Professor in the Computer Science Dept) with all great patience on him, taught us the basics of the Computer.

[The tutorial might sound a wee bit of an anachronism by today’s standards, but still…] 😍

Said he,

You see, the hard disk can store information to the size of 800 CDs.

The CD can store information to the size of 800 floppy disks.

As regards the location of the CD Drive and the Floppy Drive, he said that,

The CD Drive was located just above the floppy disk’s, and the floppy disk was located above the hard disk, and all of them are within the CPU.

The Cambridge English dictionary defines anachronism as,

‘something placed in the wrong period in history, or something that belongs to the past rather than the present’.

Judging the CD Drive and the Floppy Drive by these yardsticks –

Well then they’ve now become obsolete or anachronistic by all means! 😍