Having founded an underground newspaper in high school, Jones was interested in writing. So he went into computer science instead. It was part of the applied math program. I'd go over to the basement of the textile building with these punch cards. I was so dyslexic, it took hours and hours.
Students now have no clue about the old days.
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate' means nothing to them. Jones got his undergraduate degree in computer science from N.C. State in 1972, and came to UNC as a systems programmer in 1978. This was in the days before electronic mail, which Jones helped get up and running at UNC in the mid-'80s. The early buy-ins were the people who needed to do business overseas. There was one political science professor who went to Spain on a NATO leave.