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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (52944)2/27/2022 10:01:27 PM
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I liked the discussion you had today about the early computers, Sun.

In high school, we had Tandy 1000 computers in a couple of classes, including Advanced Chem. We liked to play Asteroids on them. It really wrecked the keyboards.

In my first college, I had a computer class, and every seat had a new, IBM PC.

In my 2nd college, the computer class I was required to take had us programming punch cards to feed to the mainframe. Literally, bass-ackwards.

I bought the same textbook twice for those classes, but didn't realize it until I was out of school and saw both of the books. The 2nd class used it. The first class didn't.

I had the first networked PC's in my office in 1986. That was the same year I hired the first programmers. We wrote all of our own software, as the off-the-shelf stuff was just not workable.

I see two of our guys eventually landed jobs with Google:

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