Why do Nationwide make it so difficult to open a Flex One Account for a teenager?

fuzzzzy

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Admittedly I did go to a large crappy comprehensive.

[Deleted User]

We (thankfully) had neither computers nor calculators at school, or subsequently at university, it was not until the early 1980's in the US and later in that decade in the UK that IBM personal computers took hold in business - SNA 3270 architecture was prevelent prior to that point in US business. My first job in the UK in 1966 was operating a Honeywell mainframe that had 16k of memory and 100 mb of disk! By 1970 I was in the US where calculators were not permitted in exams until the mid 1990's, until that time, everyone relied on log tables and slide rules, (again very thankfully).

Eco_Miser

I left school and went to university in 1968. No computers at school, and the only calculators were slide rules. University had one computer (ICL 1908), which I did get to play with. The physics dept. had a mechanical calculator (rather more than an adding machine) for student use. I got my first electronic calculator in 1972 and first personal computer in 1980.