(Yorkshiremen Moments in 3, 2, 1) First program: Sieve of Eratosthenes in ALGOL 60, typed onto paper tape on a Friden Flexowriter and run (ran first time too

(Yorkshiremen Moments in 3, 2, 1) First program: Sieve of Eratosthenes in ALGOL 60, typed onto paper tape on a Friden Flexowriter and run (ran first time too) on an Elliott 803. Year was 1963. I did get to touch the cabinet, but was not allowed to mount the tape. First computer: 1967, Elliott 4130, from the inside out as commissioning tech employed at Elliott's in Elstree. 1000 cps paper tape readers were quite something. Especially when they failed. Elliotts computers absorbed into ICL 1968/9. So any schools using 903's had to be using old refurnbished units. I would have thought. 1968: same time, evening degree at Birkbek College, prepared CS projects on IBM punched cards and handed the stacks to the priesthood via a little hole in a wall for running on the Atlas. 2 day turn-round. A step backwards, for me, after such intimacy wth the 4130. Fun fact: the course was not called CS in those days, not yet. So I got Mathematical Sciences with Physics on my piece of paper.