4 ms·
Back around 1979, I had one of the first home computers. So I was used to data-entry via the keyboard. (Even if that keyboard was part of an ASR 33 teletype.)
by simonblack 3y ago
Back around 1979, I had one of the first home computers. So I was used to data-entry via the keyboard. (Even if that keyboard was part of an ASR 33 teletype.)
Off to the local high-school for a night-class on 'Computer Programming'. There we used punch cards for inputting our programs. However the card-reader was was one of the new-fangled optical ones. We only had to mark the punch-hole with a felt-tip pen by hand, instead of having the actual holes punched out by a card-punch machine.
That ASR 33 teletype above? Yes. I often made and read paper tapes with that.
- stcredzero 3y agoSome time in the early 80's, one of my high school teachers had brought in a Heathkit (I think) microprocessor kit, where one programmed the 8 bit machine with 8 toggle switches, and a commit button. But my dad getting an Apple II+ predated that.
- bombcar 3y agoSome of those early computers had no storage (it was a pricey add-on, at first) so even though you had a keyboard and monitor, you had to type your program by hand each time. And it was still amazingly powerful compared to nothing at all.
- simonblack 3y agostorage (it was a pricey add-on, at first) Yes. $400 bucks for 16 kilobytes. AND you had to solder all the components on to the board yourself.