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My first professional software development job was circa 1982-83. I was in high school, working part time for my step-brother. He’d just got a luggable PC like
by cmpalmer52 2y ago
My first professional software development job was circa 1982-83. I was in high school, working part time for my step-brother. He’d just got a luggable PC like the one in the picture and he paid me like $20 to write a MS-BASIC program to calculate payroll withholdings.
- mlhpdx 2y agoAround the same time (maybe a bit earlier) I was in 7th grade and paid a few hundred dollars to port a Basic program to C. I’d never seen C before and had to buy the book, port the code on paper, then go to work with my mom on the graveyard shift to use computers in her lab to type it in and eventually compile it. A long way from the git push to CI/CD I did a few times today…