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We almost need an I'm an old nerd thread.
My first exposure to computing was in Grade 8 and was via a 2741 terminal to IBM using APL. The next year we switched to IP Sharp and their APL environment. Skip forward a few years and we also had an IBM 5150 running APL. The next year (my final High School) we moved to an HP 9830A which used Basic, and had both a cassette tape for storage and a card reader (pencil marked, not punched).
After that it was off to University where I was exposed to Burroughs 6700 via timesharing, an IBM 360 via punched cards and LSI-11s running RT 11. Of course in first year my friends and I used the LSI 11s to enter our assignments, sent them to the 6700 and on to a high speed card punch, before feeding the card deck into the card reader on the 360. It sure made getting nicely formatted punched cards easy.
Then that summer off to a job where we had an Amdahl V6 and a Dec-10, and a conversion project was underway from MFT to MVS. I still marvel at the fact that the V6 had a whopping 8 MB of memory, and it supported most of the data processing for an international company!
Those were the days!
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