On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:21:27AM -0700, bobjack wrote: > On May 14, 6:01 pm, Terry Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You're making me feel old ;-) > > You feel old! I wrote my first program at school, in BASIC, on a > typewriter that was attached to a paper tape punch. To get the program > to run the machine had to be connected to a remote computer by putting > a normal telephone handset into a large wooden box, (connection speed > 300bps). The paper tape was then run through the machine again and > the results printed on the typewriter. Happy days...! Should have > stuck with it :)
I wrote my first programs in High School, by submitting punch card decks of Fortran progarms which would be run in batches nightly and then the output would be given to me the next day. You had a typewriter and a paper punch? Such luxury! :-) -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan, | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | my beautiful Queen. | Robin Gregory (2/28/92) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
