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| From | Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: So, what was your computer birthplace? |
| Date | 2016-06-10 00:24 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnnlk25l.k3r.howard@foxtrot.local> (permalink) |
| References | <njc77f$jot$1@dont-email.me> |
On 2016-06-09, gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote: > Apart from the FORTRAN for engineers course in 1969, > My exposure was to PDP11 and PDP8 in their naked format, > so that I had complete control and understanding of the machine, > and, even when I progressed to RSX-11, I had complete knowledge > of the source and workings of it, having been on the systems > programmer course at the Butts centre in Reading in 1978. I would have been three or four years old (1968 or '69) when my mom used to take me to work (a navy subcontractor of some kind in the DC area) on occasion. I'd walk down the hall and find myself in a door way (she says it was a window) looking at this BIIIIIIG machine. It was talllll and went out of sight in both directions. I swear, I imprinted on that IBM 7090 like a baby bird. I had a pretty good idea what I was going to do for a living from a young age. The first machine I programmed in any way was a Digicomp 1 in 1973. I never really understood it. The first machine I understood at all was some kind of IBM box I never saw, interacting with it using an actual Teletype and acoustic coupler from Byron Junior High to the Shaker Heights High School (Cleveland area) during the 1976-1977 school year. I programmed it in BASIC IIRC. > The result of all that exposure was that I feel uneasy with any > computer system where I am not in complete control or lack > knowledge about what is hiding under the API with which I interact, > and it is that sense of unease that motivates me for my language and OS > ideas. I hear that. Too much abstraction can be an issue, getting in the way of understanding what's actually happening. What I'm starting to understand is that such a deep understanding is no longer always necessary.
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So, what was your computer birthplace? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-09 17:58 +0100
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