re: #139 🌹UOJB!

First exposure to computers for me was going to Vo-Tech school in the summer and seeing an IBM System 360 in action with punch cards and memory drives consisting of six metallic plates. in a plastic container

My dad used a punch-card FORTRAN machine to do his engineering undergrad courses in college. Those went away for general-purpose use before I came along. Personally, the first computers I interacted with were an Atari that was my dad’s, and an IBM 286 that he bought when he realized that computers were becoming the big thing. It was on that machine that I learned how to upgrade hardware and to operate DOS, the early foundation of my computing career. My first programs were written in Apple BASIC on a set of Apple IIe computers in the school library during lunch hour.