pelaird pelaird

Take Yourself Back to the Beginning

▼

Take Yourself Back to the Beginning

What was your first experience with the PC?

from WinCustomize Forums

Ahh, fond memories of my first experience with the PC. The IBM PC. I was working for a software company selling mainframe utility software for the IBM 303X series. I remember there was also a hardware company in the building, and if I recall, a Megabyte of RAM for these machines was $10,000.00 US.

Please show your age and share your first experience with the PC.

everything else
142,361 views 28 replies
Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 23


Quoting pelaird,
reply 21

You saved and loaded programs using ticker tape. Later in college, I had access to this same computer, but we used punch cards and the FORTRAN programming language.




Take a close look at those shoes!

Reply #27 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting pelaird, reply 27

Take a close look at those shoes!

XD

The Political Machine 2024
Reply #28 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

DEC had given my high school a PDP-3, so I was programming in a forerunner or offshoot of Basic called Focal in 1968, using paper tape on a terminal like the one previously pictured. I used punch cards for the first time in 1969, when I took a class for high schoolers at MIT, learning FORTRAN.

+2 Loading…