pcdefl
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I'm 56. First played with BASIC on a Time Share terminal with punched paper roll reader/writer, talk about SLOW input, but much faster than the keyboard.
Next learned FORTRAN IV on a IBM 360 with punch cards. That was the first university learned language.
After that Intel assembly 8085, hex coded and hex inputed, a huge pain. Next the Intellec, my first job: PL-M 80 programming using the Intel os and the ICE to run the generated binary code directly on the intel boards for PABX development, with polling the decadic phone terminals and software debouncing of the pulses, with the data bus multiplexed with 32 timeslots for 32 simultaneous conversations on each channel. A lot of programming also on a TI59 with magnetic card reader! For servo and stability problems solving and up to 9*9 matrix calculations for circuits at IST. Personaly doing Z80 programming on a ZX81 Sinclair machine, 1kB plus 16 KB RAM to interface to filming equipment for stop motion animation control of Super 8 cameras for animation... Worked with Data General 8600 (I think!), VAX VMS, Control Data workstations (they were SGI rebadged), moved to original SGI equipment, created a multimedia centre, did control from an SGI of a 16 mm camera to copy Pixar method with a 35 mm camera, the year they finished toy story I, and from all that a student moved on to win a BAFTA and an Oscar on CGI special effects
Next learned FORTRAN IV on a IBM 360 with punch cards. That was the first university learned language.
After that Intel assembly 8085, hex coded and hex inputed, a huge pain. Next the Intellec, my first job: PL-M 80 programming using the Intel os and the ICE to run the generated binary code directly on the intel boards for PABX development, with polling the decadic phone terminals and software debouncing of the pulses, with the data bus multiplexed with 32 timeslots for 32 simultaneous conversations on each channel. A lot of programming also on a TI59 with magnetic card reader! For servo and stability problems solving and up to 9*9 matrix calculations for circuits at IST. Personaly doing Z80 programming on a ZX81 Sinclair machine, 1kB plus 16 KB RAM to interface to filming equipment for stop motion animation control of Super 8 cameras for animation... Worked with Data General 8600 (I think!), VAX VMS, Control Data workstations (they were SGI rebadged), moved to original SGI equipment, created a multimedia centre, did control from an SGI of a 16 mm camera to copy Pixar method with a 35 mm camera, the year they finished toy story I, and from all that a student moved on to win a BAFTA and an Oscar on CGI special effects