Re: O/T Checkin' Yer Age

Posted by KEB on February 18, 2006 at 21:13:05 from (209.108.192.162):

In Reply to: O/T Checkin' Yer Age posted by Allan in NE on February 18, 2006 at 18:17:50:

Allen, got you beat by a mile. I started out with FORTRAN & punch cards in college. Only the computer science geeks got access to teletype machines, and no one outside of the computer science department had ever even seen a CRT display. An IBM computer was something that had it's own building on campus, and communicated with us lowly engineering students via a line printer.

Anybody remember what "core memory" is? How about programming in "assembly language" or "machine code"? Remember when JAVA was a cup of coffee? How many of you know how to drive a slide rule?

First personal computer was an Ohio Scientific motherboard with a homemade case & power supply. 8K BASIC in ROM, 4K RAM (later upgraded to a whopping 8K), mass storage was an auido cassette tape drive (manually started & stopped, by the way), and the display was an old CONRAC video survellience monitor I picked up at a flea market. Eight-inch (yes 8, not 5-1/4) floppy drive was an option I couldn't afford at the time.

Come a long way in the last 30 years, haven't we.

Keith

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