The first thing I wrote was on an HP3000 minicomputer in 1985. It was an installer for the product I was working on. You coped one executable from 9-track tape

The first thing I wrote was on an HP3000 minicomputer in 1985. It was an installer for the product I was working on. You coped one executable from 9-track tape. It then installed the package from 9-track, then you entered numbers used to calculate database sizes. I don't recall any reported defects. The product was a text search package that used MSWord, WordPerfect and raw text files. We also added "relevance trimming", a basic MapReduce. The algorithm was specified in a book that was written in the 1950s or 1960s. I checked it out from the library. We wore ties.