>> My first programming course was Fortran IV in 1967.
>> In the summer of 1969 I ran some simple programs on a Varian at NASA.
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> I started programming on a Univac III in COBOL in 1966; a year or two later
> did some sort of assembler language pgmg on the U1040, involving input from
> (anyone else remember this existed) *paper tape* (which was produced on a
> production floor as jobs were done).
Paper tape was SO much better than punch cards. When you dropped it on the floor, the program lines didn't all get out of order....
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