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Date Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:43:09 -0500
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.6757.1392213333.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>  Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:21 PM, ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Please i have a silly question to ask.
>> >
>> > How long did it take you to learn how to write programs?
>>
>> My entire life.
>>
>> I started in 1975 when I was 16 - taught myself BASIC and wrote a very
>> crude downhill skiing game. I had dial in access to the mainframe at a
>> local college (my HS math teacher got that for me).
>
> Wow, sounds exactly like my experience.  Probably one of these:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2000

I think it was a Xerox Sigma:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_Sigma_series

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  Re: Python programming Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 18:46 -0800
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    Re: Python programming Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2014-02-11 23:14 -0500
    Re: Python programming Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 13:41 +0000
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  Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 08:55 -0500
    Re: Python programming Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-12 09:13 -0500
      Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 11:43 -0500
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  Re: Python programming Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-02-13 15:30 +0000
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