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Originally Posted by keith_d
d a fair bit of geeky stuff on the primitive computers of the 1970s.
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It must have been at least 1976 before I even saw a computer and that thing filled a huge data centre. At least 78 before I was able to touch a keyboard on a teletype on a Prime before that I had to hand write coding sheets and someone gave me back the compile log.
79 when I was writing in APL, still on a teletype. and 80 before I got my mitts on a VDU connected to a GEC 4080 through a bureau service.
So how the hell did a kid get access to computers in the 70s? The first small scale computer I got my mitts on were Rockwell Aim 65 that I used for test rig control and interfaced via a star lan that I built to an Acorn Atom file server. in about 1980
I had a colleague who had a superboard II which came out in the states about 79. but it cost a fortune. Far more than I earned in a month at the time.