Eric T. wrote: > 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 programmed my first computer (the school's, not mine) via a set of toggle switches and a pushbutton to enter the binary info into memory. I have no recollection of the make/model or limitations. It was 10 years before the Altair, CP/M and the 8080 chip. It was 6 years after the first transistorized computer, the Philco 2000. I worked on a 2000 about 5 years later, however. And at the time, I thought. "Boy, am I getting in this game too late!".
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