On 05/24/2012 07:53 AM, James Knott wrote: > Marc Paré wrote: >> OK, I'm dating myself here, but, I was taught at the very last year >> at my university where "punch cards" were still being used, and I >> used to chat on beasts that spewed paper instead of drawing on >> monitors, way back in 1976. I studied FORTRAN in 1980 so that I could >> be with the up-and-coming in-crowd on campus ... only to find out >> that they all switched that year to COBOL, DOH! > > My first exposure was Fortran, in Gr. 12, where we used pencil mark > cards. I then later had courses on BASIC, Pascal, Fortran and C. I > also learned a bit of BASIC on my own and assembly language on the > 8080, 6502, 6809 & 8088 microprocessors and Data General Nova & > Eclipse mini-computers. > This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember teletypes with punched tape?
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