[ale] Us Old Fossils :)

[Gary Maltzen]

OK, OK, I give: I wrote "Fortran A" programs on an IBM 1620...
after first learning to wire (program) a 409 calculating printer...

I got involved too late for the (*IAC) tube-based systems

Long way from writing OO (Smalltalk, C++, Java) code...

> Actually, my first programming course at Tech involved FORTAN IV
> and punch cards (024 AND 026).  This wasn't programming on the bare metal,
> but it was pretty primitive by today's standards.
>
> The first time I flubbed a key at an interactive terminal, and
> the OS responded with "ILLEGAL CONTROL CARD" (yes, they all yelled in
> that day), I just *knew* that someone was about to come and arrest me....
> Ah, the Cyber.


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