"My first computer" was a DEC PDP8 at Tektronix, which I was allowed to use at age 16 in 1969. The programming was language was FOCAL. No disk drive - I/O was an ASR-33 teletype, and a "high speed" 60 character-per-second paper tape reader.
I compare that to my new 80 gram, 1 Terabyte SATA3 solid state drive. A terabyte of paper tape would fill a cube 20 meters on a side, weigh more than 10,000 metric tonnes, and take 530 years to read. Not all was bad back then. The lawns we kids were told to get off of were larger. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
