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Strategies & Market Trends : Befriend the Trend Trading

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To: Casaubon who wrote (36589)	12/7/2004 12:54:18 AM
From: wilywilly	Read Replies (2) of 39683

C'mon. You started in the PC era. Real men programmed in Fortran. Before that real men programmed in assembly. Punch cards were my first "data entry" interface. When I was going to sea for Scripps we had a modern "mini-computer" from Digital [remember them before they were bought by Compaq, who was bought by HP?] that used paper tape from a Teletype as a program storage medium. Remember DecTape? What an improvement! You could watch your compiler doing its passes over the source code by the times it rewound and ran the tape forward again. OK, sorry, just reminiscing about the good old days. Things were so primitive back then that the MITS Altair (the first PC) was such a hit it was on the cover of Popular Science and they hired a guy named W Gates to write the Basic interpreter for it. I remember stopping by their office in Albuquerque to see if Scripps could get the source code. They said "no". I wonder how those arrogant guys ever turned out...

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