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Originally posted by ToyotaDoodz
And learning Fortran on those danged punched cards and hating syntax errors and what it took to fix them (punch a new card and recompile) and graduating one year and the school purchasing a new CRT terminal system the very next year. Arrrrgggg.
I wrote a tick tack toe program in Fortran. It worked great. Took 7 sheets to print it. I've still got it somewhere and it's on green lined computer paper. No floppies back then. We're talking 1978.
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OK, so I'll reveal the nerdy side of my past.
Understand about the late 70's. The Imsai 8080 and Altair 8800 both had switches on the front so you could program on the bare metal.
We learned Fortran, Cobol, and S/370 Assembler on cards.... had other machines that booted the operating system from a cassette. Wrote a program to have the old TRS80 voice synthesizer give the Gettysburg address (phonetic programming was a kick). And learned how to break into the Star Trek game to boost your energy levels enough to blast Klingons with phasers from several galaxies away.
