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To: laotzu

I started programming in 1975.

Hollerith cards and tape-in tape-out. Writing Assembler code to create things that don't exist yet. And when P0 came along , man what a relief.

I took the company, that I still work for, from having two stand-alone 8088s to the seventh-generation network of P4s they are running today.

You got me -- I started on mainframes with BAL and didn't get into the smaller systems until we have Z80 processors (I know, I was spoiled).

55 posted on 09/08/2006 4:36:25 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (the war on poverty should include health club memberships for the morbidly poor)

To: freedumb2003

I hate computers.

58 posted on 09/08/2006 5:02:41 PM PDT by laotzu

To: freedumb2003

The first coding I ever did was in assembly language on an IBM 1620.

75 posted on 09/08/2006 6:38:31 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)

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