>I do have to say the IBM Model 30 (ca. 1969-70) never crashed on me. Not once. <s> I did, however find bug in the basic on the Spectra 70-7 (ca. 1972-73) on which I analyzed data and (in the system editor) wrote my dissertation. Other than that (and Emory had added some stuff into the standard basic that shipped with the machine), never a crash.
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Hm, that Compaq had TP on the disc and with that I learned that there are ways to put the poor machine's DOS into oblivion.
Came to programming after I wrote some simple statistic routines on the machine bpought to help my furxmble fingers not spend my whole budket on TippEx...