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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:43:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Python programming
From: Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
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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