On 09/14/2016 04:56 PM, Frank Filz wrote: > My first program was written in Basic for an HP 2100A using 80 column > cards > that were marked with #2 pencil instead of punching. Well, unless it was RPN > programming in an early HP programmable calculator, I forget which came > first. > > I have done punched cards (in college). > > I have flipped front panel switches (on a Heathkit). > > I have loaded paper tape (the HP 2100A could also do paper tape). > > I have written assembler code on paper (calculating branch relative offsets > by hand) and then typed it into an Apple II's monitor.
First program: FORTRAN on punch cards in college. Some COBOL, as a personal exercise on a PDP-10 at the place I worked in the late '70s. Some PL/1 at Boston University. Then I got serious and wrote a program to schedule garbage trucks on a North Star Horizon using North Star Basic. I also wrote a program to track how may reps of which exercise was done by each of the players on Tom Landry's Dallas Cowboys team. (No, I didn't manage to land that job directly. I did it for a friend who sold North Star Horizons and a strain gauge to the Cowboys to record something about their motion. It was some kind of table they'd stand on and throw from.) Then on to CP/M and Turbo Pascal in the '80s on a machine with an enormous 5 Megabyte hard drive! -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
