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I started Programming in the Late Stone Age of Computers (1962). I was a Sophomore in high school (Central Catholic High School, in Lafayette, Indiana). In the first year I punched programs into PAPER TAPE and feed them into the RPC 4000 with a 50 CPS -- Characters Per Second -- PAPER TAPE Reader or typed programs and data on the 10 CPS console "typewriter". When it came time to SAVE a (modified through the console) program, a new PAPER TAPE was punched-out, via the 10 CPS Paper Tape Punch. The RETAIL price of the first computer I programmed (the RPC 4000) was $100,000 in 1960 Dollars (about $800,000 in 2017 Dollars). The MAIN MEMORY of the RPC 4000 was on a Magnetic DRUM, which contain about 32,000 Bytes (actual 8K of 36 Bit Words). It ran an OS/Programming-Language, called PINT (Purdue INTerpreter).

Member since January 05, 2017

Age: 77