Young whippersnappers! My first PC didn't have a hard disk, and my second was an IBM XT with 10 megs, only 4 of which were usable. I learned to program on punc

Young whippersnappers! My first PC didn't have a hard disk, and my second was an IBM XT with 10 megs, only 4 of which were usable. I learned to program on punch cards, standing in line to feed them into a system that occupied a large room and was probably fairly state-of-the-art for 1973. And when I say that I exclude the one Basic program I wrote even earlier on paper tape. At least this machine was at UCLA, so I won't say that to get to the computer I had to walk barefoot in the snow, uphill in both directions ...