[extropy-chat] History of the portable computer

[BillK]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:57:14 +0100, scerir wrote:
> > You young kids have it too easy nowadays.
> 
> By chance, does anyone remember those FORTRAN punched cards?
> http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/collection/i-program.html
> Or am I alone here?


You had punched cards! You were lucky!

We had to key programs in on a row of binary switches, one instruction
at a time.

And we were happy!  :)

BillK