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Old 01-01-2012, 09:15 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by pholy View Post
Actually, I used the 026 in University. Then I went to work for DEC and got introduced to paper tapes. When I taught the PDP-8 Programming course, we would start loading the Focal interpreter with the ASR-33 teletype reader and then go out to lunch because it took at least 20 minutes to load. The High-Speed reader was a great advance, but the DF32 disk with 32000 word capacity was sheer heaven.
Oooh yes - remember paper tape and those incredibly fast processing speeds!
What about Visicalc? Programming in Basic? The first time you used a mouse!
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