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I'm too young for any of the machines on the page (can't believe I get <br />
to say *that* !).<br />
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I learned on good 'ole Cyber 70 systems using DecWriters (in college).<br />
<br />
My first job I programmed basic on TRS-80 with separate disk drives <br />
which always went out of alignment and then had disk i/o errors.  Later <br />
that year I got to work on my first PDP; PDP11-28 running Unix (bsd?). <br />
I got to play dungeon and dragons in my spare time :)<br />
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Am I aging myself?  Oh yeah... fun stuff.<br />
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vu Pham wrote:<br />
> Bill Campbell wrote:<br />
> <br />
>> The first computer I used was the Bendix G-20 which was a bit<br />
>> after the G-15.  I learned FORTRAN on the G-20 when I was handed<br />
>> a deck of cards with a program to debug, a copy of McGracken's<br />
>> FORTRAN manual, and free access to the key punch and computer.<br />
> [...]<br />
> <br />
> Bruce Marshall wrote:<br />
> [...]<br />
>  > Have used:<br />
>  ><br />
>  > IBM Ramac<br />
>  > IBM 650   (not mentioned but preceded a lot of what they show)<br />
>  > IBM 7090<br />
>  > IBM 1401   (which was used to load up progs for the 7090)<br />
>  ><br />
>  > and a whole bunch of things after the above.<br />
> <br />
> <br />
> David A. Bandel wrote:<br />
> [...]<br />
> <br />
>  > I was a late-comer:  UNIVAC 1108 was my teething ring.  University of<br />
>  > Miami, Coral Gables, FL,  c. 1973.<br />
>  ><br />
> <br />
> <br />
> Cool !!!  So far our list found three supergeeks who used supercomputers :)<br />
> <br />
> I remember one time one pretty old IBM technician came to my office for <br />
> rescuing some problems on the old IBM server ( not that old as listed in <br />
> the link ) my manger who used to be a system programmer for banks talked <br />
> to him and both were glad with conversation like "Haha, do you remember <br />
> the printer ... of the system ... ?", "Do you remember the huge disks <br />
> ... of the system ... ?"<br />
> <br />
> I guess three of you will be very happy to talk together about those <br />
> supercomputers :)<br />
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