³ I started with a TRS-80 Model III. After being exposed to TRS-80 MODEL I and ³ Apple II through school.
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TI-99/4A. Had a lot of fun with that one. Later, we had an XT clone. I
still have them both.

Mike

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³ 8-bit Ataris. That gave me exposure to several machines. Once I got into
³ high school, I got exposed to the TRS80 (not sure the model) and
³ Burroughs 900 mainframe (for doing COBOL).
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Wow, our school system didn't invest in such things as mainframes. I wish
I had some exposure to COBOL back then, or even in college. They were very particular about programmers needing to be a part of the engineering
school, even though they had a Business CIS "concentration" degree.

With COBOL being a "business" language, you'd think they'd make the
connection. They eventually did, a couple of years after I graduated. I
look back and think that was probably too late by then.

Mike

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Re: What Was Your First Compu
By: MIKE POWELL to MHANSEL739 on Fri Jul 05 2024 08:54 am

With COBOL being a "business" language, you'd think they'd make the connection. They eventually did, a couple of years after I graduated. I look back and think that was probably too late by then.

In my last year of high school (1997-1998), I heard my school was teaching programming, and I wanted to start learning, so I took the class. I hoped they would be teaching programming with C or C++, but they were teaching BASIC..

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In my last year of high school (1997-1998), I heard my school was teaching programming, and I wanted to start learning, so I took the class. I hoped they would be teaching programming with C or C++, but they were teaching BASIC..

In ~87 we got a mash of BASIC, something that they called pseudo code and a sniff of LOGO and PASCAL. All this was on Apple IIs, there was no real
PASCAL for the II line aside from USCD with its out operating system, which made it less than useful for general purposes.

Oh and I forgot, not that its programming, but a crash course in binary for some reason..

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³ MP> With COBOL being a "business" language, you'd think they'd make the
³ MP> connection. They eventually did, a couple of years after I graduated. I ³ MP> look back and think that was probably too late by then.
³
³In my last year of high school (1997-1998), I heard my school was teaching ³programming, and I wanted to start learning, so I took the class. I hoped they ³would be teaching programming with C or C++, but they were teaching BASIC.. ÀÄ[N=>MP]

Our HS had a "computer" class (cannot remember what it was called now) where
we coded in Commodore BASIC on C64s. That was ten years before your experience.

There was one other computer lab that had actual IBM or compatible
machines. It was for a "business computer" class. I didn't take that one
but was curious about it. I don't think they learned programming. I think they probably used the business tools available them (word processors, spreadsheets, etc.). A couple of years later I took a class in college
that was similar. We received student versions of Wordperfect and I think Quatro spreadsheet. There was one other but I forget what.

It was all DOS based then.

Mike

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