The first computer program I ever wrote was when I was at school in 1977 in mathematics class. It was a BASIC program to print out a list of numbers, and had to be transcribed onto the equivalent of punched cards, except the 'holes' weren't punched out. Instead you used a soft pencil to colour in the 'holes' to match the binary ascii code of each character in your line of code. There was one card per line of code, each with a max 80 characters that you could encode on them.

These cards were sent off to a university somewhere, and the resulting print-outs would be sent back a week or so later. Unfortunately my program didn't work. If I had got a printout back it'd probably have said 'SYNTAX ERROR'.

As I was a school-kid at the time I didn't really realise exactly what I was doing, but looking back now it's pretty cool to have at least attempted to write a computer program on such an ancient input device. Shows how far we've come since I was a kid.

100% Agree.

POP doesn't appeal to me, so I won't be buying it even without DRM. If they made Far Cry 2 DRM free, I'd buy it, as I boycotted that due to the install limits.