I was born in 1936 ( makes this an ancient guy story )
My first "personal" computer was the TI-99-4A. I could only afford the unit, no disk drives of any sort. I make me a "cassette drive" using a portable cassette recorder and wired up my own connecting cable.
Only programming language was a form of basic. Even a short program would take over 30 minutes to load from cassette to "pc". I usually loaded the program while I was eating supper. When I finished with my meal, my computer would be waiting for me.
One of my first computers that I use in my work was a mini-computer, 12 bit words, and magnetic core memory. It used punch paper tape. It was part of a broadcast automation system. I never did know the manufacturer's name for the computer.
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