
nickz
Learned Electronics at 13 with the Heathkit series of trainers. First computers were Hex. We ran and programmed on a keypad. From there to PDP-8 and PDP-11’s. (Mag tape, punch cards, TTY) Terminals not monitors. First micro was a Moto 4-bit slice. A lot of Intel MCS-48 through 8086 and 8088. Mostly machine or Assy lang coding. Then came the C-64 & IBM PC… Fortran, Cobol, Unix, Basic, Visual Basic, some C, C++. I stayed rather current until about 2015. Of course, I’m a gamer since PONG. (Which was done using only 14 and 16 pin TTL gates on an 18"x18" PCB) It was pretty hard to troubleshoot Thought I’d jump back in with a Pi 5. On backorder of course. But I did buy a 3 and a 4. ( the 3 was too slow after spending the day on an i7-10700K w/ rt6800xt.) I apologize to those under 50 who don’t know what I’m talking about. I’m a walking history lesson