If memory serves me (and that is questionable) I recall a university mainframe in the early '70s, a bundle of keypunched cards, a basic program designed to calculate unit prices of groceries, and a 24 hour wait to go and pick up a newsprint output of the results. I think I got a 1/2 credit for the course. (and I wasn't 3 years old ;).
Bonnie




Cameron Nikitiuk wrote:
Hmmm...all these trips back in time courtesy of the wayback machine...

I remember my first foray into technology was programming basic on an Apple
IIe (or something similar) in a ProDOS 3.3 (or could be DOS) in 1983.

I then moved to a Vic 20, followed by a C64 and played around with a TRS80
Model 100....those were the days!


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Heh-heh!! I remember when a buddy of mine blew something like $800 on RAM. This was when the price spiked in about 95/96 due to "a factory burning down". (What economists refer to as "commodity marketing" - kind of like the price of oil, but I digress.)

Here's the funny part: at $55/MB, that would have been a whole 16
MB...!!  I seem to remember he was quite p*ssed when the price
normalized!  LOL  Oh well, he had too much money, anyway...  *grin*

Frank

ps I also started with a Timex-Sinclair 1000.


Gustin Johnson wrote:


two meg RAM upgrade to just boot (RAM was $100/meg for my

machine in those

days).



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