When I was 16 in 1960, had a digital computer from
Berkley Scientific in Olympia Washington.  It was
in effect a set of ganged rotery switches that you
wirred (programmed).  The first real computer was
the one on a nuclear submirene that shot the
missles.  Wrote a ten instruction program.  Then
later was on an older class  of submarine where
the missle computer was banks of ganged rotery
switches.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bond, Peter" <PBond@TANDBERGTV.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 9:55 AM
Subject: [OT]:RE: [PIC]: Re: PIC development
STINKS!


> > When I was 14 I was programming my VIC-20 in
basic and using
> > the game port
> > to "interface the real world".
>
> User port, wasn't it?
> Although at that age, I was already using 6502
asm on a VIC in preference to
> BASIC. <G>
>
> > If only I had a PIC and a BASIC compiler when
I was 14!!!!!
> > I would have
> > had the whole freakin' house wired to PICs.
>
> Oh yes...  Although at that point, I was more sw
than hw inclined.
>
> Peter
>
> --

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