Re: Ten thousand TRS 80s...

"Ian Goddard" <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:adqdnZv-VPEVzF_VnZ2dnUVZ8rKdnZ2d@pipex.net... > John wrote: >> >> Well just after they invented electricity we used these @ the high >> school I went to... >> >> http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/asr33_2.jpg >> >> Uhhhh that would be about 1976....... man that makes me old!! > > No it doesn't. I started with ICL 1907 & punched cards about 1970 doing > post-grad. > > -- > Ian I wasn't far behind you, Ian, starting on 11 June 1976 (it was a Friday - how sad that I remember the date and the day!) at the tender age of 20, programming in COBOL on an ICL 1904S running George 3 - http://www.icl1900.co.uk/g3/ ('the best operating system in the world'), with paper tape and punched cards. Sadly, I can still remember some of the key combinations for the manual key punch. Plus ça change ! WE COMERR, EJ AL,RT(MONITORFILE) Regards Glyn > > Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard > at nildram co uk > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >