You are ancient, I worked for Chevron and I remember when we got a 360. The guys who supported it were looked upon as "Einsteins". I later wrote programs, in Assembler Language, for our "lowly" 1800. Sure liked that little machine. The "hot shot" programmers wrote using Fortran. Don Boudreaux Dick Miller wrote: > Don Boudreaux wrote: > >> Boy you guys must be "ancient", I used paper tape and advanced to >> punch cards in 1966, when I started in computers. : > )) >> >> >> Don Boudreaux >> Lafayette, La. >> >> > I was teaching and wiring boards in 1963 for an IBM 6400. > Writing code for real computers in 1965 when sys360 was born. > Retired in 1987. > Dick Miller > Retired IBM System Engineer > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

I must be old. Shell in Torrance, California got an IBM 650 in 1959 or 1960 I started on it with assembler language and Bell Interpretive language. 10,000 "words" of rotating drum memory. Then moved "up" to Fortran. Dave Anderson