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Comment Re:I was born at the right time... (Score 1) 153

I'm younger than both of you, and I wrote 370 assembler on punched cards. It's a function of what your school had available to deal with the crush of students piling into CS.

First computer was an HP3000 timeshare with the teletype and acoustic coupled 300 bps screamer. Followed shortly by the TRS80 Model I, then manna from heaven, the Atari 800.

On the HP a program that could print an arbitrary NxM maze was mesmerizing. On the TRS80, Hammurabi was addictive. You had to type in the code by hand from the spiral bound book, and the cassette drive never saved it properly, so I was always typing it in. Along the way, all that BASIC started making sense...

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