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On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 09:44:56 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


> You were not programming then before the days of a 'glass teletype'
> 
> vi was a good editor for a flexowriter...

I was, but it involved Hollerith cards. The first glass teletype I saw was 
when I interviewed with IBM at Endicott-Johnson. However I wasn't 
interested in programming at the time. My 'programs' were implemented in 
ladder diagrams and relays, latter TTL, and sometimes fluidics. With the 
advent of the microprocessors I transitioned from hardware to software.