Yeah. I started out in 1969 as an intern doing electrocardiogram analysis on a CDC 8090. It had four banks of sixteen KiB of twelve-bit core memory (yeah, littl

Yeah. I started out in 1969 as an intern doing electrocardiogram analysis on a CDC 8090. It had four banks of sixteen KiB of twelve-bit core memory (yeah, little magnetic washers threaded onto a square screen of wires). Obvs 8090 assembler is now useless as a skill. But the thinking and troubleshooting skills needed to make that stuff work? Still use them every day.