>Thanks George for that correction. I did a search of Google using "C HISTORY", but I still don't have a complete picture. What I did get was very interesting.
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>Back in 1979 when attending Texas Tech University, I took a course in Fortran which was required to receive a BA in acocunting. During the labs, I would run into students who were Computer Science majors. They often would be working on circuit boards soldering wires between registers or whatever, etc. Is that the way programs were orginally written. During my fortran class, I would write a simple program which I later key punched into cards, with one card for each line of code. When done, I would take my stack of cards to the Texas Tech IT department that would run the cards. Later I would pickup a computer printout of the run, which usually would indicate some bug in my code. <g>.
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>Things have certainly come a long way since then. Do you remember to old key punch machines and the machine that would sort the cards. ;-)
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LelandJ,

Nope, I don't. I didn't get interested in computers until the late 70s. A friend of mine (Tom Chamberlin who's brother Mark was at MS in the beginning and before at MITS) had a "Trash 80". That was the beginning for me. I had early Ataris, then a PC-XT, etc. etc.