by all means: reminence all you wish! On Friday 29 June 2007 2:40 pm, Lynn Newton wrote: > BTW, I took my first programming class in 1966, three years > before Unix was invented. > > I learned a programming language called SCATR for an IBM mainframe > (the 360? or maybe that came later), which was pretty close to > assembly language, and had to enter my programs on IBM punch > cards which I would hand to a technician and hope he didn't > drop them. Then I'd come back in 6 or 8 hours (sometimes at 2:00am) > to pick up the output of my program -- which more often than not > would say SYNTAX ERROR. > > Didn't take much of that for me to lose my taste for it. > > The course I took was called "Computer Programming for Musicians". > The University of Illinois was then the world's leading center for > research in electronic and computer assisted music composition, > and I was a music composition major. > > But I'm sure there are a number of subscribers to this list > who can one-up me with "I remember when" stories, by margins > of several years at least. > > I realize the original subject talks about "modern" operating > systems, but I couldn't resist the urge to reminisce. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss