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From: dean@hyper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re:  first de-virginization re: computers
Message-ID: <223@hyper.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 17:13:27 EST
Article-I.D.: hyper.223
Posted: Thu Mar 26 17:13:27 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 08:40:22 EST
References: <310@cg-d.UUCP>
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in article <310@cg-d.UUCP>, mikkel@cg-d.UUCP (Carl Mikkelsen X5220) says:
> 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.
> 
> 	Sigh ...
> 
> 	Anyone know where I can find one for a fix?
> 
> 	-- Carl

	Ah yes; the Programma 101. I've got one in my basement, but the
last time I tried it, the printer didn't work (it just sat there and 
hummed to itself).  One of these days, I should really try getting it
fixed, just to be able to run the "free coffee" program again...


	(I bought it at the local Goodwill store.  It had apparently
been owned by the engineering department at Honeywell, and it came with
a number of programs on the program cards, one of which was a number-guessing
game which would print out "free coffee" down the page when the number was
finally guessed)

	They don't make 'em like that any more...

					Dean C. Gahlon
					...ihnp4!umn-cs!hyper!dean