[El Gato]

I can still write programs in Forth

Well, I write C++ with a FORTRAN accent. :) I'm one of two old codgers in the department that can even read FORTRAN. The other guy got roped into a big project in another division where they are upgrading and verifying a bunch of FORTRAN code, some of it written before the flood I think.

I've still got my old slide rules, well two of them anyway. I actually generally used a cheap plastic mini rule for coursework, it was easier to haul around, even though I had both a K&E metal and some Japanese brand of bamboo slide rules. I was out of college, and had 12 hours of grad credit, before I bought my first TI calculator, at the base exchange. The price had dropped enough by then that the powers that be no longer considered them "office equipment", which the BX could not sell.

[quietolong]

I never did like C my self. All those dam pointers to work with. I always thought C became the language of choice because it was hard for non-programmers to understand. So programmers could keep there black art mystic. Give me machine assy or basic ;)

[FreeTheHostages]

I still have and LOVE my HP12C. That is SO my favorite calculator. I think in part because of the very low-level programming functions: it's very assembly-language-like.