>Hi Bill,
>
>>Thank you, Thomas.
>always a pleasure...
>
>>I have no immediate plans to use the Chromebook but my goal is to be completely cloud-based when it looks reliable.
>>I started out with dumb terminals and it seems that I'll be making full circle.
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>Did so myself, although probably a bit later - VT- 100 on DEC Tops 10, did NOT like it. Needing to run at night, weekends and holidays (on nearly empty machine, was about 10x as fast as during workday H) I bought C64 and connected via 1200/75 Baud - good fit for fast reader with trygpInG oroblems ;-)
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>Started typing on the Commodore breadbox as well, but programming (after a couple of short Basic programs) in Pascal or C was a PITA with the disc drive... FORTRAN I was using on DEC nowhere in sight. Got first contract to create a ledger in MS Multiplan and my first commercial program for a group of cab owners - started in Pascal on 6502, tried Z80 card with Turbo Pascal at a friends machine - then but bought a PC from the ledger cash - one of the first Compaq "portables" and coded in Turbo Pascal for some time. Later added HD, from then on loved personal machines.
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur30bn_3G58

I was a diehard mainframer till I saw Lotus 123 and DBASEI run on a PC.
I was hooked.

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