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The Friday 2006-11-10 at 13:09 -0500, Ed McCanless wrote:
> > You know, older programmers could have a joke like real programming was
> > done with physical switches; there were old computers you actually had to
> > load the initial boot program into memory, programming word by word
> > flipping switches. Or so I have been told. Cute :-)
>
> I remember the switches from high school, but I was not allowed to join the
> computer class because my history grades were not high enough. (History?)
Lucky you! I don't think any of my teachers new what a computer or a
program was. I had a Texas Instruments Programmable Calculator TI-58C,
with a wonderfull 500 program steps memory (shared with storage memory
space, so you never really had that many steps), so I knew what a program
was. But I couldn't show off, because none of my friends understood what I
talked about so excitedly!
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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