Sounds like I'm in good company. My first computer-related job (1979) was at Computer Sciences Corporation in San Diego, primarily loading punched card decks for customers, and printing out the results. Almost 10 years later at General Dynamics, I wrote a program to replace the punched-paper-tape interface to the numerically controlled drill they were using for printed circuit boards for aviation electronics. In my first programming class at Grossmont College our code was punched on card decks and submitted to the batch queue - usually a 10 minute wait to see if your code compiled and ran correctly :) I remember more than one poor soul accidentally dropping their card deck, unlabeled, and sitting on the floor crying over the resulting mess. ________________________________ From: Seth Jarvis <SJarvis@slco.org> To: 'Utah Astronomy' <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Times-a-changin (Was: Star Rover for iOS) Well if you're going to be that way about it... FORTRAN, Univac 1108, stacks of punch cards, got your results from the I/O room, U of U MEB >1974<. Seth -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 6:56 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Times-a-changin (Was: Star Rover for iOS) I did my first programming on a UNIVAC 1108. It occupied an entire room at Merrill Engineering at the U. 1976. Basic and Fortran. On punch cards. Computers didn't fit on desk tops in those days. On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
Ah, you kids and your toys.
My Commodore 64 that I taught myself assembly language on in 82-83 is still working. Used it up into my first year of college when I started using the UNIX workstations. Although I did use it (and 2 others I had acquired by then) my junior year as part of a parallel programming course in CS and a hardware course in EE.
(Granted, assembly isn't a big deal on a 6510 chip, but I was pretty proud of myself)
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