John Kuthe > wrote:
> On Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 12:38:05 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 4:43:26 PM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>> The first computers I had were DOS! My goodness, that takes me back a few
>>>> years) I have been through a few different ones since then
>>>
>>> I had a long hiatus between punch cards and DOS. Missed all of those
>>> nifty little toys like the Commodore 64.
>>
>> My very first computer was the Commodore Vic20. A couple of years
>> later I bought the C-64. I loved those basic years when all
>> wasn't complicated. I learned to program then too. At first home
>> schooling with the help of "COMPUTE!" magazine. I still have
>> both of those here in the original boxes too.
>>
>> Then I started back to college taking computer classes. Learned
>> Cobol then just because many large companies still used it and
>> needed to convert soon. Back then, no pc's in the computer
>> classes or labs. We used an IBM mainframe. Without looking it up,
>> I seem to remember an IBM 4341.
>>
>> Anyway, once I bought a modem for the Commodore, I was able to
>> work on the school mainframe as a terminal. Saved me driving out
>> there and maybe waiting for a free terminal.
>>
>> They did have a punch card machine there but not used...just for
>> educational historic use. I learned how to use one but never
>> actually had to use it.
>
> FIRST computer I used was over a teletype machine with a phone modem
> interface in 6th or 7th grade in the early 1970's. We'd dial the phone,
> wait to hear the "carrier signal" then put the phone's handset in the
> modem cradle and the teletype machine (NO CRT!) would connect to the
> computer, and we could program in BASIC. Had a punch tape paper roll
> interface too, to store or read back in programs! I liked a very simple
> program I wrote I called PaperWaster:
>
> 10 Print "CR/LF"
> 20 GoTo 10
>
> Run this and the teletype's paper feed would empty the paper roll if left unattended!! :-)
>
> I was a BORN hacker, I guess! ;-)
>
> John Kuthe...
>
>

Its a shame your knowledge ended at the 6th grade level.