On Apr 7, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Karen wrote: > On Apr 7, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Terry Ford wrote: > >> And yes, I am old enough to have started programming in Commodore >> BASIC V2.0 in 1985. :) > > Hmmm... > > I'm old enough that my first BASIC programing experience was on a > mainframe using punch cards in 1973...
You had punch cards??? I remember when we had to actually line up the cows in head to tail mode and let the local wizard check for sin tax errors. If a bug was found, we would lose an eye or an ear (unless we asserted our cows with a bag of gold up front). 8-P > My second was about 1975 on this: > http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp9830.htm > > My first experience at home with BASIC was on the Atari-800 in 1981. I think that you win overall (if we're not talking Bovine BASIC), but I did PRINT my name on the TRS-80 Model 1 in Fall, 1977 for Home use. Tim -- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
