| Re: What was your first computer?
I don't remember exactly but it was a Zenith computer from 1986. I think it had an 8088 processor and I know I paid $400 for a 10MB yes MB hard drive. That hard drive really made it special because most people were still using dual floppies.
I'm old enough to have done my first programming on the mainframe at Rice University with punch cards. I had to get an Electrical Engineering degree or Math Sciences degree because they didn't have a Computer Science degree yet. You had to be dedicated then. Write a program, feed it though the card reader, wait 45 to 90 minutes and see if you got it right. Usually you lost another 45 to 90 minutes because of a simple thing like a missing semicolon. I remember debating whether Fortran would ever go away because it was only a 64KB yes KB programming language. We used PL1 for most of our projects. That was a monster program at 192KB.
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