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[Jonathan Cameron]

(04-10-2014 04:17 PM)BarryMead Wrote:  

(04-10-2014 02:39 PM)Jonathan Cameron Wrote:  You guys are giving my nostalgia!
-Jonathan

Ahh the good old days. Back in my college days 72-75 I was the first kid on campus to own an HP-35. My teachers wouldn't let me use it on tests, because they thought it gave me an unfair ADVANTAGE over the other students. I still have that original HP-35 and it still works! On tests they made me use my old Picket Slide Rule (which I also still have). I did some favors for one of my teachers, so he gave me unlimited access the the mainframe UNIVAC 1100 computer, which gave me all the programming power I could dream of in college. I stayed up till midnight most
nights programing the UNIVAC. I wrote games, Lunar Landers, probability games. I learned Assembly Language, and even fixed a bug in the Fortran Compiler for Univac.

It is slowly coming back to me! I graduated with my bachelors in '73. I remember learning on a slide rule in Junior College before transferring to Georgia Tech. I still have that slider rule. My first calculator was a TI SR-52. Then later the HP-67. I remember visiting a professors office and watching him use toggle switches to load the boot loader in a PDP-?? and then load a program from paper tape played lunar lander on it. It was a time of huge changes in computation! In my college years I went from slide rule to a glorified 4+ scientific banger (SR-52), and then finally to a real powerhouse, the HP-67. Heady days.

-Jonathan