SamTherapy posted at 11:39AM Mon, 11 January 2021 - #4409912

A_Sunbeam posted at 9:30AM Mon, 11 January 2021 - #4409900

I started with Fortran 4 and hand-punched cards which were posted to Imperial College London. Later used a card-punching machine with keyboard. Next was a terminal which connected to Honeywell Glasgow via a modem (wait for reply then put phone headset into modem holder), and BASIC on punched tape.

Didn't get a home computer till 1997, when I bought a PowerMac 7300.

Luxury. There were 150 of us programming in a cardboard box in t' middle of t' road. :D

Rubbish. I remember when I had to program in the dark, without power. :D