[TriLUG] Old Guy Stories

[J.C. Jones]

I was born in 1936 ( makes this an ancient guy story )

My first "personal" computer was the TI-99-4A. I could only afford the 
unit, no disk drives of any sort. I make me a "cassette drive" using a 
portable cassette recorder and wired up my own connecting cable.

Only programming language was a form of basic. Even a short program 
would take over 30 minutes to load from cassette to "pc". I usually 
loaded the program while I was eating supper. When I finished with my 
meal, my computer would be waiting for me.

One of my first computers that I use in my work was a mini-computer, 12 
bit words, and magnetic core memory. It used punch paper tape. It was 
part of a broadcast automation system. I never did know the 
manufacturer's name for the computer.

jcj

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