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ProfessorGAC

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15. Not 100% Sure, To Be Honest

Tue Apr 22, 2025, 03:42 PM

Apr 22

We had a dumb terminal and a 600 baud phone connection to a mainframe at a local university. I basically just learned Basic & Fortran on it, but I don't recall doing anything technical or useful on it.
I had a Commodore 64, but that was mostly a game machine.
The first programming I did was on a CP/M based computer. I don't remember what brand. I wrote some programs that could partial out a chemical formula to estimate heat capacity & thermal conductivity from the Hsu method.
Then in '84, we switched to Mac in our department & I became just a user.

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what was the first true ( business) computer u trained on. mine was a ibm system 32 w 3741 data station. [View all] AllaN01Bear Apr 22 OP

First was a 'dumb' terminal EYESORE 9001 Apr 22 #1

Don't remember the machine but what a pain it was to use. dreamland Apr 22 #2

eww, keypunching. gah. AllaN01Bear Apr 22 #4

A clone. I hadn't thought of that term in a long time! CrispyQ Apr 22 #3

Mainframe with big boxes of punched cards, even for simple programs. Silent Type Apr 22 #5

GE 635 in 1968 lapfog_1 Apr 22 #6

Color this tech impressed. cayugafalls Apr 22 #8

the company that bought it didn't know what to do with it lapfog_1 Apr 22 #10

you could get those side panels in any color(s) you wanted lapfog_1 Apr 22 #11

ohh , ohhh, the holy grail of computing. AllaN01Bear Apr 22 #16

IBM 360 Model 20. The year was 1965. sinkingfeeling Apr 22 #7

In the newsroom, mid-late 90's... FirstLight Apr 22 #9

Commodore's Amiga Earl_from_PA Apr 22 #13

Two types of computers LogDog75 Apr 22 #12

I joined out HS science club just to access the TRS computer Torchlight Apr 22 #14

Not 100% Sure, To Be Honest ProfessorGAC Apr 22 #15