Congratulations Cal!
I'm maybe closer than the average member of this list, but not too
close: I think I saw a digital computer in late 57 as an
undergraduate in Manchester, UK. It would have been something to do
with Professor Tom Kilburn in the Electrical Engineering department.
As a mechanical engineer, I was occasionally allowed to go over and
have a look. The sheer intellectual drive and sense of fun in that
department set me thinking that I was pursuing the wrong course of
study, and eventually I got into digital computers. I did 'program'
an analog computer as a student but I didn't write a real program
until 1961, so Cal wins hands down. I started with 5-track paper tape
- punched cards came later.
Oddly enough I don't have much technical nostalgia for those days -
it took soooo long to get anything done...
Graham
Cal Horner wrote:
A Challenge to the list members.
On June 14, 1957 I entered into my life long love affair with the
computer.
Back then it wasn't called IT. It was simply DP. COBOL and Basic
didn't
exist. Fortran was only a baby.
My first computer was peg boards, sorting machines and card
readers, and
chain printers.
If you calculate the years and days properly you will see it comes
to fifty
years.
My challenge is a simple one.
Is there anyone on the list with more time in the profession than
me. Or am I the "Last Man Standing"?
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