Re: The Good Ol' Days of Computing?

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject	Re: The Good Ol' Days of Computing?
Date	2025-10-30 03:07 +0000
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:30:48 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    It was a huge explosion of skills that found many (and many
>    *profitable*) business lines down the road.
> 
>    Without PCs, well, I think it'd all still be Big Iron and paper punch
>    tape ...

I took a slightly different path via hardware industrial control systems 
to early MCUs but I had about zero interest in FORTRAN on System 360 
iron.

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