One of those threads, old stuff: was Confusion
On Sun, 11 May 2014 15:13:21 +0900
Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Joshua Anthony
> <janfany@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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> > I confess to much ignorance of technical detail - despite 45 years
> > as a computer support engineer, programmer and technical writer, I
> > still find a lot of stuff hard to grasp. ie. I am old and lazy and
> > think GUI is a gift from heaven. So would you, if you'd started out
> > punching ten words of machine code onto paper tape in order to
> > start up a mainframe system - long before there was any form of
> > visual display.
>
> Hey can we start one of those those threads? I think the
> teletype/paper tape terminal we used in high school to interface with
> the IMSAI box we built. (Much gratitude to a teacher who used a lot of
> his own money to make that possible for us.) So you've got me beat by
> about ten years. But, yeah, Univac 1100 with punched card readers and
> less main memory than my M6800 prototyping board, my first year in the
> community college's EDP courses. IBM System 34 at my summer job.
Oh, there we go! I was late to the party, so my first computer was a
Heathkit ET6800 Microprocessor Trainer:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200610/200610.htm#_Computers_Ive_Known_and_Loved
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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