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>I liked Assembler too, although I doubt I could even remember any of it. I learned while I was in college, but not in any classes. I worked part-time at the computer center on campus to earn enough to pay my tuition and books. At first I did operations stuff, cleaning the tape drives, taking the jobs off of the printer, etc. Later they gave me little programming jobs ... that's how I learned Assembler ... for IBM 370.

hi Bonnie,

I was taught ibm 370 assembler too - in a distant past - and I really liked it. Never did any of it after school - but I remember we had an excercise - a program which we had to make, punch the cards in school, and on a saturday morning, the whole class went to a company which had a 370 (school could not afford a 370 - we had an old Burroughs gamma 30 with 20,000 bytes of core memory. I learned programming in machine language on it).

Each of us put their stack of cards in the reader and let our program run. I had no mistakes (program or mis-punched cards) and I was out in under an hour while the rest were struggling with their core dumps - those were the times