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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: the early teletype
Date: 23 Nov 2024 11:18:03 -0000
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Chris Ahlstrom  <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>In high school (Lockport IL around 1973) we used teletypes to write
>BASIC code and then save it to paper tape.
>
>Before that, our algebra teacher gave us "hollerith" cards and we'd
>write code by filling in the little rectangles with a No. 2 pencil.
>He'd load and run them for us and give us the output on paper.

HP Educational Basic on an HP100 or HP2100 machine?
--scott
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