On 19/09/2021 1:02 pm, Antony Barry wrote:

And 10 years later, also at Sydney University I wrote my first program

I wrote my first program in the late 70's :)

It was because my father worked with DEC that he was able to bring
home a PDP-11/20 (including rack) with an ASR-33 TeleType. Those
blinken lights were so seductive... and the paper-tape puncher...
...magnetic core memory - turn it off, when turned back on its all there!

<sniffle> I'm getting old :( </sniffle>

-andyf

ps. the program was "Star Trek" written in FOCAL - you warped around
the galaxy and shot down Klingons..


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