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my first memory was a school trip in 1970 to the local council who had a computer but all I can remember was a printer churning out accounts !
in 1973 an electronics course introduced me to fortran computing, punchcards and no-access allowed into the rooms where the computer was!!!
programs were written on input sheets, handed in where they were punched out and run. failures were returned, after a week, with instructions to hand print replacement cards, then another week would go by.
my wife had a greater nightmare where she inadvertantly ran a program at work that went into a loop and totally spent the departments monthly budget of top-priority time on the first of the month. in those days the computers were set ups as TSO (time sharing)..
ah .... memories ....
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