On Friday 07 November 2003 11:28, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Which Sperry Univac?  I used several different models, but the two I used
> the most were a beloved 90/70, and a 1100/62 that *no one* liked.

That I no longer remember...
Mind you we are talking 83/84, so these dinosaurs were really days after 
meteorite struck (IBM PC, and the take over of mammals, such as single-user 
systems, networking and the now dominant species Windows, which by definition 
would have problem to survive a catastrophy...).

Professional career;
Basic -> HP calculator -> Assembly (8031->8088->PIC) -> C -> (C++) -> Java -> 
JavaCPU

Don't remember the model number of the HP Calculator, but it was hardly a 
pocket one, more like a computer, but only paper-print output, an enhanced 
calculator keyboard, and IEEE-488 interface. I did a Tomato breeding 
measurement and data collection system with that, connecting to a weighing 
machine... First job I got paid for, ~USD100.

For fun;
Basic -> TI57/58/59, HP41C -> Assembly( 6502->Z80->8088) -> Fortran, Pascal, 
APL, Juno (Ada clone), Lisp -> C -> Java

(There were days when I thought that being a good programmer meant you could 
program any language.)


The OLD crowd is getting sentimental over nostalgia of a lost era (Jurrasic 
times).

Cheers,
Niclas

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