Take Yourself Back to the Beginning

pelaird

Join Date 12/2018

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Take Yourself Back to the Beginning

What was your first experience with the PC?

Ahh, fond memories of my first experience with the PC. The IBM PC. I was working for a software company selling mainframe utility software for the IBM 303X series. I remember there was also a hardware company in the building, and if I recall, a Megabyte of RAM for these machines was $10,000.00 US.

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teddybearcholla

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You saved and loaded programs using ticker tape. Later in college, I had access to this same computer, but we used punch cards and the FORTRAN programming language.

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Publius of NV

Join Date 08/2002

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DEC had given my high school a PDP-3, so I was programming in a forerunner or offshoot of Basic called Focal in 1968, using paper tape on a terminal like the one previously pictured. I used punch cards for the first time in 1969, when I took a class for high schoolers at MIT, learning FORTRAN.

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