Oh yes, I remember paper tape, the original "backup" media !
I also went through a HP1000 mini computer class where we had to write the machine code boot program AND enter the binary code using the front panel toggle switches!
I hated keypunch machines because I could not backspace for a correction! There actually were little pieces of tape to cover over the holes for changes <eek!>
I remember experimenting in Pascal.
Trivia point: The original IBM PC came out with three operating system options: MS-DOS, USCD Pascal, and CPM.
Ken
On Jan 27, 2011, at 11:53 AM, bj wrote:
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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).
