I was 12. The language was BASIC and the system was a good old Honeywell H1642 time sharing system. We had limited storage so we saved our code using paper tape from an ASR-33 teletype. We were also able to use a Honeywell 316 mini-computer by installing the BASIC interpreter. How did we load it? By going to the H316's front panel and entering the "key in loader" instructions in binary using the rocker switches. The interpreter was a large spool of paper tape. Man we thought we were so cool. :-) I graduated to Fortran and assembly after that (anyone remember DAP?)

Allan Dianic Sr. Systems Engineer