Not sure what you mean.  I wrote my first program in 1969 when I was a=20
dumb high school student, so it couldn't have been that hard.  ;)

In the 70s, I did program computers using toggle switches, but that was=20
training, not a practical application.  In 1976, our ship (US Navy) got=20
a computer that was so small. it fit on a desk!  It cost ~20 years of my=20
pay, so I didn't dare pick it up, but I played with it some.

Kerry


PETER ONION wrote:
> I spend most Saturdays at The National Museum of Computing=20
> at Bletchley Park  http://www.tnmoc.org/
>
> I look after a 1960's British computer called an "Elliott 803B", and
> I have to tell you that programmers today have a really easy job
> compared to the people that programmed the machines from that era !
>
> PeterO
>
>  =20



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