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Atticus

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4. We are contemporaries. I used a similar model to write very simple program

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Sun Sep 9, 2018, 03:47 PM

Sep 2018

commands in my freshman "Intro to data processing" course. Does "COBOL" bring back memories? Our instructor (until he got drafted!) wrote programs that printed out digital reproductions of P!ayboy Playmates. Different times.

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Before control, alt, del... [View all] pbmus Sep 2018 OP

In 1969 I took PL/I at UNC and we had to enter our programs on cards using... CurtEastPoint Sep 2018 #1

I learned on one of those! unblock Sep 2018 #2

Shoot, that's a 029. I started key punching on an 024. There was no printing sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #3

I started on 026. I'm impressed that CurtEastPoint had the 029 in 1969. Jim Lane Sep 2018 #7

We are contemporaries. I used a similar model to write very simple program Atticus Sep 2018 #4

COBOL, RPG, Assembler, Pascal, FORTRAN. ret5hd Sep 2018 #5

I worked on systems that used similar wiring. SeattleVet Sep 2018 #6

I started out... TwistOneUp Sep 2018 #8