Re: [OT]Early Computer Experiences ()
SIXS wrote:
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> I started out wiring boards on IBM EAM (electronic accounting
> machines).sorting those punched cards I programed IBM 7080 in a autocoder.,
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> IBM 1401( 4k size),( bootstrap cards for fun,) and IBM 1410,. I wrote Cobol
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> language for the IBM 360, (TOS, DOS, OS, operating systems)( debugging
> with core dumps) IBM7090, HP3000, and CDC computers? I lost a job because
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> the guy was too young to know several IBM computers I had programmed .I
> programmed basic on the VAX.computer. I had a Commodore 64 and an Amiga
> 1000. before the IBM PCs took over. I think I was 3 years old when I
> started, still in diapers.
> JIM
I graduated as a highways engineer in 1959,
and had an end-of-course 3-month trip to USA. (I live in Argentina).
There, I saw what now I think was an IBM-650, and wondered: what on
earth is this???
Two years later, I entered IBM Argentina. I got courses and practices
with unit-record machines, and then my old love: IBM 1401.
I also programmed bootstrap cards and sent the program to TIE (remember
that?) They were what I called Universal Bootstrap cards, because they
cleared memory for any memory size, contrary to standard cards, which
served only for a fixed size.
For fun, I programmed a poem generator program and a music player with the
1403 printer. We gave a demo to the President of Argentina, playing the
Ituzaingo march.
I wrote an assembler (then known as SPS) called CAST for the 1401 and
while doing this I first met the hashing technique.
Then, I switched to the IBM/360 and wrote mainly assembler and FORTRAN
programs.
I introduced the APL language in Argentina.
Only about in 1980 I had my first personal computer. It was a Commodore 64.
With it, I programmed my first music composer program in BASIC, and
a chess playing program written in Pascal and assembler.
¡Qué tiempos aquéllos! (probable translation: Good old times!)
Best regards.
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