Am I the oldest one here?

[Occhidiangela]

Not becoming a computer programmer because I hated punch cards.
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Aye. While I am not as old as you, punch chards were a motivation to avoid early computers like the plague. I was a noob, I learned simple programming in BASIC. But you had to turn in your flow chart to the teacher first, or she would not let you get on the precious phone / data line to the big mainframe that our high school time shared on.

Teletype machines as computer keyboards. Long spools of yellow TT paper, and me and my green felt pen trying to connect all the subroutines and figure out what was pointing to the wrong place.

Before everyone called small programs scripts. Before the Apple and the Charlie Chaplin commercials for personal PC's.

Before everyone who worked in an office became a clerk, but they fired all the secretaries and removed their positions since the PC now made everyone a secretary.

Occhi