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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze
.... Don't ask me why or what for, Showing my age, my first language was FORTRAN using a shop built minimainframe with three terminal stations and a single 8" floppy drive. The next year they threw that monster out and bought four new Apple 2Es...
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You're a youngster yet.
The first computer I worked on used punch cards, had no non-volatile memory, and needed it's clutch adjusted so the card reader could work. It was an IBM 402 and many years obsolete even before my school got hold of it. I learned BASIC and FORTRAN on a DEC (heard of them lately?) PDP-11 and a Xerox Sigma 7 respectively. Commercially available personal computers weren't even around for another couple of years.
You think I'm kidding, don't you,
ChrisH