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Algorithms fascinated me long before I could hope to ever get my hands on a computer to implement them.

I used to scribble them down and imagined what it would be like if I had a machine that could run them. This dream became reality when some of my mates came into possession of programmable pocket calculators – the world would never be the same again.

Later I got to write programs on a table top calculator that could save the RPN instructions on magnetic cards – what a revolution.

There were FORTRAN on mainframes, complete with paper tape and punch cards, and desktop programming.

5 comments

  1. Charles

    Changed the links on my website to the new “cog wheel” pages.
    Sent you an invite from Stack Overflow to quality / useful facility.

  2. Hansjörg

    Hallo Steffen, warum fackeln die denn gerade Croydon ab (wo ich immer mit dem Bus durchgefahren bin)?
    Hoffe Euch geht es gut
    Gruss aus Coburg,
    Hans

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