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Subject: Re:  first de-virginization re: computers
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Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 13:59:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 24 13:59:37 1987
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> 	Of course, we (of my generation) were exposed to our share of
> IBM 1620's, 1130's, and 360/30-E's.  What I first learned to
> "program", was none of there.  Prior to learning PDP-6/10 allembly
> language at MIT, most of my programming was on an Ollivetti-Underwood
> Programma 101.
> 
> 	My heart still yearns for the flashing red and green lights ...
> the internal delay line ... the program cards ... the precision wheel ...
> and the "Gen Reset" button.
> 
>       | Carl Mikkelsen           | ..!decvax!cg-d!mikkel |

     Ah, yes.  Simple, straightforward instructions like "B split
downarrow".  I remember what satisfaction it gave me to write a
program to compute sines and cosines.  Programs could be up to
120 steps, but anything that long used up all your registers for
program storage.  Those were the good old days.
-- 
{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!perkins        --Henry Perkins

It is better never to have been born.  But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps.