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From: israel@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: Re: My first time
Message-ID: <2250@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 18:08:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 30 18:08:35 1983
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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The first computer I worked on was an IBM 1500 (I think) back in
spring 1975.  I was a freshman in college, majoring in biology
at the time, and didn't know the difference between a computer and a
microwave oven (and didn't care either).  A friend of mine told
me about this system where I could get an account and free computer
time, and learn to program.  I was not interested at all, but he kept
on bugging me about it so finally to shut him up I went there with
him.  The system was only up for general usage about four hours a
week and only ran one language, APL (a very interesting first
language to use).  It had a CAI system so you could actually learn
APL on line from the computer, and hop in an out of the lesson
to actually practice.  Anyway, I absolutely fell in love with
programming, and so I took an intro CS course the next semester
and decided to switch over.
-- 

~~~ Bruce
Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland
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