Oh, brother, don't get me started. (Too late.) 11 presidents. Wrote my first computer program in 1960 at the age of 14, in a programming class at the Bronx High School of Science. However I was thrown out of the class for hacking the binary loader*, which normally typed "Program loaded" on the console typewriter, to type a snide comment about the teacher instead.

My first job in computers was operating Cornell University's Burroughs 220 (below), which used vacuum tube flip-flops, was bootstrapped with paper tape, and of course programmed using punched cards.



* The loader deck was 8 punched cards placed in front of a program deck to boot it into the IBM 1620 computer.

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