>>Just waiting for "I programmed FoxPro for punch cards"
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>My first programming, back in 1968, was breaking Veldman's Hierarchical Profile Grouping Analysis into subroutines that could be on our IBM Model 30 with 8K of core memory, i.e., .wire wrapped around magnets. In Fortran. Thank goodness for the self-teaching books from IBM on same. Punch cards were the name of the game.
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>That's how I came to love programming, in fact. All because of a boring class on psychological personality theorists and because I couldn't stand the thought of doing a traditional end-of-course paper.
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>Hank
Indeed.
My first language was zeroes and ones on an IBM 705II, but Fortran captivated me as soon as I saw it.
And yes, the program was on punched cards.
I was managing a data center at the time and I used Fortran to forecast the running time of tape sorts- disc wasn't around then- depending on the number of inputs-about 10 lines of Fortran code.