[Bubba_Leroy]

You had vacuum tubes? We had to use tree branches and were glad to have them!

OK, I concede. You win the oldest computer geek on the thread award.

I first learned programming (FORTRAN) in college using punch cards. The first computer I ever owned was a Radio Shack TRS-80 with a cassette recorder for data storage (it cost me about $400 which was an ungodly amount of money for a college kid in the late 1970s).

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “I first learned programming (FORTRAN) in college using punch cards” <<

Ditto!

And heaven help you if the pile of cards got knocked over.

Used to carry mine around in a compression tray.
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