Subj : Re: Old dudes
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Avon
Date : Sun Mar 03 2024 09:26 pm
On 02 Mar 2024 at 08:42a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
pF> My high school had Commodore CBMs, like a Pet but with a real keyboard,
pF> 80 columns and 32K of memory. The professor brought in a small WANG
pF> computer that read punched cards for data entry and had us all use it.
pF> We didn't understand why, he just asked us to trust him, we'd
pF> understand.
pF>
pF> So, technically, I started out programming with punch cards. :)
First PC at school a TRS-80, then Apple 2e and a Dick Smith System 80. <-- all of these prepared me for using a PC in the 2000s installing Mystic. (see how I brought it back on topic ;-)
Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
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