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   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-03-06 20:11, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:09:54 -0500, Tim Slattery wrote:   
   >   
   >> "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.   
   >   
   > While I learned FORTRAN IV in the mid-60s I didn't have much interest in   
   > programming until the '70s. I'd worked with industrial control circuitry,   
   > all relay logic, that slowly went solid state, and ultimately to MCUs. One   
   > 8080 could replace a LOT of octal base relays. Logic is logic.   
      
   Once I built a 1 bit adder with relays, just for fun. Nobody appreciated   
   the fun, the IBM PC clone era was in full blast.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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