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What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] bitchkat 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My first program was written on a CDC 6600 I think. Oh wait that was college. In high school we had a TRS-80 a decwriter connected to a PDP-11 at the local university. We had to do some programs with punch cards. One was just for a history lesson. The other time was I decided to take COBOL which was offered through the business school and that was punch cards only. I actually had access to COBOL at work which didn't require punch cards. And I wrote a really simple file transfer program and used a machine running CP/M to transfer the file. They told me I had to use key punches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yooo

I am jealous, PDP-11 is the real deal. I was early enough to see some punch cards but I was not involved with them.