"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Captain Jack wrote:
>> (Coursewriter, anyone? No?
>
> Yes!  Actually, I got hired over the summer one year to try to duplicate 
> the functionality of an early version of that.
>

That was actually my first programming experience, in high school. We had a 
terminal in our school (as did four other schools) hooked to an IBM 
something or other at the school admin office downtown. If you had your math 
homework done in time, you could get on the computer and run a program (the 
Baccarat game was popular). I was the sort of geek who always worked ahead, 
so I got on the computer a lot. One day, I complained that the game was 
"stupid" and "broke" (I was also a very obnoxious kid; I'm sure I've 
outgrown that...). The teacher went to the filing cabinet, dropped the 
Coursewriter manuals onto the desk in front of me, and said, "So... fix it." 
That was in about 1976, and I don't think I've gone a day without coding 
something or other since. :-D

--
Jack

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