Fifty years ago today...
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For me, 50 years ago, I was programming using punch cards. Sure glad those went away. Computers back then weren't exactly fast either, I doubt they had the power of a modern calculator. Gratefully, we have come a long way and computers have become far more powerful and easier to work with. Might I also add, a lot more fun. mvarey
Fifty years ago, and a few more, I was using paper tape, bit switches and an ASR33 attached via current loop at 110bps. I think I got more practical stuff done then than I do now using multiple screens and a hyped up IDE, but today's stuff looks prettier.
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Whippersnapper! I wrote my first program in the summer of 1965, in FORTRAN II on an IBM 1620.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
feeling old yet?
It's not very often, these days, that I can say "I wasn't even born then", but I wasn't born until mid 1970, so just missed the invention of ARPANET :-D
I can say that I was around at that time. I was 13 days old, but I was around.
Kelly Herald Software Developer
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The predecessor to the Internet, ARPANET carried the first message between two computers. On the second try, admittedly - the first attempt to login crashed after the "L" and the "O" and it took an hour or so to fix the bug. ARPANET establishes 1st computer-to-computer link, October 29, 1969[^] I used ARPANET - briefly - in the early eighties: feeling old yet? :laugh:
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The predecessor to the Internet, ARPANET carried the first message between two computers. On the second try, admittedly - the first attempt to login crashed after the "L" and the "O" and it took an hour or so to fix the bug. ARPANET establishes 1st computer-to-computer link, October 29, 1969[^] I used ARPANET - briefly - in the early eighties: feeling old yet? :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
