My first was a PDP-8 at the U of Ills Grad School of EE in 1969 I think.
Then Hollerith cards to batch load Fortran programs on an IBM 360-40 at
Cal Poly SLO in 1970.
First micros were ALTAIR and IMSAI with boot switches and paper tape to
load BASIC.
Then the big leap forward to a TRS-80 Model I Level I. The future had
arrived.
On 9/21/2021 10:09 AM, John Sechrest wrote:
My first one was a HP 2100 series with paper tape, cards and 16K of
memory.
It had flippy switches too. I had to memorize the boot sequence to load the
tape, to load the OS.
Basic and Fortran.
The fortran compiler was multi-pass, so that meant being available to load
the second part of the tape after the first pass was generated.
I remember tapes piling up on the floor and getting good at rolling them
back up.
Still have cards that I use as book marks.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 9:26 AM Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote:
funny, i came in a different door; so used hollerith cards (1130, 1401,
709x) and a lot of assembler before tape (pdps).
side excursion to more modern technology: i recently got a cheap usb-c
cable tester. https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B07Y8BPVV4 (home url
is https://bit-trade-one.co.jp/adusbcim/) and no longer have to wonder
whether the cable will carry and/or supply power, video, ...
randy
