OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Oldest worked on or oldest owned? The oldest one I (or my family) owned would have been an Atari 800. Or would the middle '70s "build your own computer" kit from Radio Shack count?
As for the oldest worked on, in sixth grade I was in the TAG (talented and gifted) program at my school, and we designed the logic (although not the actual code) for a program that would solve those "Lucy can't sit next to Bob, Bob can't sit next to Linda or Steve, Steve can sit next to Linda but not Lucy, what is the seating arrangement for dinner" kind of puzzles, and then did the data entry for each person using punch cards. Our teacher actually wrote the program (also on punch cards) and ran it, along with our data, on an old computer at the college where she was working on her Ph.D. This would have been in 1980 or so. I believe that same year or the next we got to play with a TRS-80 Model I with cassette tape drive, but I could be wrong.
I'm still pretty sure you probably have me beat, Dan :-)
Reggie Bautista
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