William Robb mused: > > When I was in grade 8, which would have been 1970, I guess, the > university installed a punch card terminal in my high school and all > of a sudden, we had a computer science program. > We did our little programs in basic, and the bundles of cards were > sent off to be run through the computer. The next day, we got back > tractor feed sheets of our work. > Grade 9 we graduated to Fortran.
Beat you by around five years; I got to use a Stantec Zebra on a summer "Numerical Methods, Statistics & Computing" course. We didn't use no wimpy high-level languages - programming was in autocode. It's amazing what you can do if nobody tells you that it's supposed to be difficult :-) By 1970 I was using an Atlas and a 360/44, amongst other systems.
