sappatoti
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Joined: 10/30/2006 From: the edge of darkness... Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: LadyRainfire quote:
ORIGINAL: quick Rainfire, that sounds like my introduction to programming, on a Mac in 1984. LOL!! I feel less alone in my dorkiness now. Quick, this is how bad it was - it wasn't even a Mac. It was a plain Apple. Not an Apple II. Not an Apple IIe. Just a plain old Apple. Sigh... How's that for dorkiness? As long as we're reaching deep into the dorkiness well, working with Apples was about as PC-centric as my IT career got. Generally, I spent my days programming and job-controlling the large big iron machines: VAX clusters and PDP timesharing units, IBM 360s, Burroughs B and Unisys A series, and an occasional Prime. But, what started it all off for me as a little known boat anchor called the MDS 2100. Each with their own proprietary OS; each with their own versions of the various high level languages of the day. At least the keyboard had been invented by then. I didn't have to learn the binary or hex programming done via the direct memory loading via throwing toggles. Not only am I a dork, I'm a really old dork.
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