Eric,

my first program was the original Bill Gates MBasic interpreter, took about
20 minutes to load
from one of those tape readers on a terminal. Wish I would have kept it,
probably would be
worth something to historians (I am one of those dinos, having programmed in
MACHINE LANGUAGE,
octal, of course, it was an Intel chip, write the program on a piece of
papervidushi).
I am getting close to selling my boat, a Liberty 28 (1979, full keel, 4,800
pounds) because of age, just can't keep
up the maintenance. Any takers? I'll train you in sailing the Spanish
Virgins... 82 degrees every day.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric T.
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 2:53 PM
To: LIVE-ABOARD LIST
Subject: [Liveaboard] Punch tapes

  When I became an engineering technician we used "paper tape" to run the
wire-wrap guiding machine.
 That was about 1978 or so.
 Boy I;m old!

 I sold my boat.
 I am now permanently land-bound  :-(

 Eric Thompson
 S/V Procrastinator
South San Francisco
[email protected]

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