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How I got started in programming. : Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek - Misfit Geek [Syndicated]
In 1974, there were no personal computers. My school got a very basic "programmable" calculator. It was about 8 times this size of today's laptop computers, had the equivalent of 8 16Bit registers and a collection of math operations. This was my introduction to programming and I was hooked.
Shortly after a business that my father was involved in purchased a NC programmable lathe that folks were having some trouble figuring out how to "program" and it because my summer job. Programs were stored on punched tape.
Then in 1979 I got my hands on a MITS Altair 8800 CP/M Computer. Then I bought a used Osborne 1, follow by a Televideo TS-802 (a real work horse for it's day) and then a Kaypro II "Portable".
Just after turning 18 I was off to Grumman Data Systems institute to learn business programming....
