High School, 1978-80, 16-18 yrs old, programmed an IBM 360 mainframe using Fortran IV w/WATFIVE and punchcards.
University, Mainframe (don't remember the model) via paper punched tape, Assembly, COBOL, RPG II, also got my hands on early desktop PCs: Apple ][, IBM, and Radio Shack/Tandy.
...ended up in a different career...
For home use had Apple ][c, Timex Sinclair (used a cassette tape to load the OS!), IBM PC w/8-bit processor, and many, many others later.
At 46 retired from career and got my first "real" tech job. Became a Simulation Expert running, repairing, upgrading, and training on networked simulation systems with 27 or more PC's running Linux and Windows. Learned Postgresql and wrote hundreds of queries to make my job easier. Managed 60+ systems all over the country and had 70-80 employees.
Retired again.
I saw, punch cards, punched tape, multi platter hard drives the size of washing machines, tape drives as big as a refrigerator, cassette tape storage, 8", 5.25", 3.5" floppies, the first Apple released personal desk top hard drive that cost about $1500 in the early '80s.
Now I just doom scroll here and reddit and a couple other forums looking for good questions to answer and problems to solve.
University, Mainframe (don't remember the model) via paper punched tape, Assembly, COBOL, RPG II, also got my hands on early desktop PCs: Apple ][, IBM, and Radio Shack/Tandy.
...ended up in a different career...
For home use had Apple ][c, Timex Sinclair (used a cassette tape to load the OS!), IBM PC w/8-bit processor, and many, many others later.
At 46 retired from career and got my first "real" tech job. Became a Simulation Expert running, repairing, upgrading, and training on networked simulation systems with 27 or more PC's running Linux and Windows. Learned Postgresql and wrote hundreds of queries to make my job easier. Managed 60+ systems all over the country and had 70-80 employees.
Retired again.
I saw, punch cards, punched tape, multi platter hard drives the size of washing machines, tape drives as big as a refrigerator, cassette tape storage, 8", 5.25", 3.5" floppies, the first Apple released personal desk top hard drive that cost about $1500 in the early '80s.
Now I just doom scroll here and reddit and a couple other forums looking for good questions to answer and problems to solve.
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