re: #140 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

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.

my first course in high school was with these

and these

first year and a half of college was punch card batch programming and a 2-3 day turnaround

today a millisecond delay is ‘my internet is too slow’ and a couple of minutes to download gigabytes to my phone while im in my car “sucks”