I started my programming in 1973 while at university working on my engineering degree. In our lab we first learned to program on a state of the art Munro Series 1300 Programmable Calculator. After that they had us working on a Xerox Sigma 9 mainframe computer using FORTRAN and punch cards. My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20 (6502 processor, 32k RAM, cassette tape drive for storage). My first (DOS) PC came a few years later. It had an 8-bit 8088 processor (dual clocked), a 360k floppy drive and 640k RAM. Heaven at the time. Things were so much simpler then. 
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