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To: Rose in RoseBear
Okay, you win! But what's the oldest computer you ever actaully used as a computer?

IBM 1401, as a high school junior in 1964. The 360 was just a set of posters then. I needed to do some number-crunching for my science project, and IBM gave me time on weekends.

I started out writing the program in assembler, until someone came by, wondered why I was despondent, and introduced me to Fortran.

The school felt there were no really worthy projects to send on to the big-time Metro Detroit Science Fair, but thought mine was the best of a mediocre bunch. It won first prize in the math division, and might have won best-in-show, except I was on the junior class trip, and couldn't be present for the judging.

4,604 posted on 02/11/2004 7:35:21 PM PST by 300winmag (FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
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To: 300winmag
Dang.
4,607 posted on 02/11/2004 7:37:47 PM PST by Ramius
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