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   From: TimSlattery@utexas.edu   
      
   "Carlos E.R."  wrote:   
      
    Defence-type usage.   
   >   
   >66 is not WWII times. It is the times of the Apollo missions, which had   
   >flight computers. Computers did exist, although huge. Early 70s, there   
   >was a computer room at my father's job. Programmers tried things to find   
   >out what could be done with a computer.   
      
   I was in Palo Alto (California) High School at that time. The high   
   school was right next to the School District offices, so I was able to   
   take a computer programming course. We were able to use the school   
   district's IBM1620 to run our programs. A small (for the time)   
   machine, and not very powerful, but it got me into programming. IBM   
   360s and 370s were also around at that time, and many governments and   
   companies used them. Micro computers that you could own yourself   
   debuted in the 1970s.   
      
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   Tim Slattery   
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