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...
>
>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.
>
>Do I win? ;)
>
>- Karen
Punched tape with a hand punch in 1954 ... simple, basic machine
instructions ...
Ohhh the good old days: 2000 vacuum tubes and no air conditioning on
a hot summer's day in Madison WI ... flying bugs in the high Anode
voltage wires <:-|
--
Cheers,
Peter
TI PowerBook G4, 1GHz, 1GB RAM, OSX 10.3.9, RB2007r2 Pro
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