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I took one computer programming class in college. PL/1 with a PL/C compiler using punch cards. Said no way, this is absurd. Three years later (after graduation

I took one computer programming class in college. PL/1 with a PL/C compiler using punch cards. Said no way, this is absurd. Three years later (after graduation) I was introduced to an 11/34. Then an 11/44 with 1MB on internal memory and removable disk packs. On to a VAX 11/780, an 11/785, an 11/750, clustering, an 8650, a 6310, etc. I even built a MicroVax I from parts purchased used. There's a ton of us who still remember 30 and 60 amp power supplies and sequenced spin-up of drive stacks. And we walked uphill both ways to our jobs with nothing but a TI calculator in our pockets.

salgernon 12y ago
Surely, you mean an HP 16c?
- pling 12y ago
  I wish more people used RPN calcs. In my EE course in the UK in the 1990s, I was the only person with an HP calc (HP41c and later a 48S). Everyone else was TI and Casio.