How old did you start programming?
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
I was 20, the year was 1966, the languages were autocoder and machine code. The memory technology was mercury delay line (you could see the bits flipping) and it had 8K thereof, its external i/o was paper tape (in and out). The mass storage was a drum about the size of an large industrial washing machine that I think held about 256K bytes. Ths manufacturer was Ferranti, the machine was called Sirius; I guess it was 2nd generation, if one regards Univac and Atlas a first generation. Next I got to use to a Burroughs system - using Algol, which is when I first started using semi-colons.