Re: *** ADMIN: New poll topic on www.midrange.com

Jim,

When I first met you 15 or so years ago, (remember, Good Samaritan
Hospital's payroll system?) you where not exactly "young" then.  I
figured that you started out on an abacus.  But then, I admit that in
high school, I not only carried a slide ruler, but knew how to use it!

Actually, I thought the poll was for "first professional system".  My
first "computer" was a Monroe 1666 Programmable Calculator.  This beast
was larger than a desk top PC, used an assembler like language and used
"punched" cards that you had to punch by hand.  But the cards where
only for programs, not data.  And if you screwed up one instruction on
the card, you got to repunch the entire card.

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: James W Kilgore <email@james-w-kilgore.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: *** ADMIN: New poll topic on www.midrange.com


>Bob,
>
>The 360 wasn't on the list. So I had no other choice but to pick the
>"earliest".
>
>Actually, I started my carrier on the S/3, the high school I went to
>offered a Fortran IV class on a 360 for us propeller heads ;-)
>
>Later, in college, I paid good money to learn something, I think was
>called "Abosulte" and "Symbolic" on an 1130? Where you had to do your
>own memory map.
>
>Upon reflection, it was a good introduction to one of the objectives
of
>compiler writing.
>
>At the time I thought it was a waste of money. That was until a
>programmable 3741 was introduced and I wrote a shipping app in APL, (A
>Programming Language) if I recall correctly.
>
>That's the problem with being a geezer .... sometimers .... later it
>will be alltimers =:-o
>
>
>
>
>
>Bob Crothers wrote:
>>
>> Judging by the current results (50% Started on the Sys/3), I'd say
many
>> of us Geezers & Wheezers have responded!
>>
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