I'm a dinosaur to the computer age. I started on IBM punched card systems in 1953; programmed IBM's 305 RAMAC for a bi-weekly payroll and monthly P&L statements for cafeterias and snack bars at government buildings in Washington DC in 1959. This was accomplished with a random access storage system (IBM's first) consisting of 50 discs in a rotating stack accessed by an arm with a read/write head and had the capacity of 5 (five) megabytes total.

I became a professional photograper in the late '70s. I avoided computers until 12 years ago and am astounded at the new technology, not to mention the internet.

Curlyben

Hello, Good Evening and Welcome to the forum.
This remins me of the first proper computer I used.
I was at my Dad's work and had a Winchester hard drive with a massive 30 Meg of storage and even a dot matrix printer.
I have no idea what the offivce used it for but I tried a little ACSII art on it

Nez

Mine was the abacus,he he.

Jay_Jay

Hi goodduv welcome to the forum ! My first real computer that I can re-call was a ZX SPECTRUM , back in the day they where a supper little computer I lol to myself now recalling the fun with it.

I'm sure you will have lots of fun here on the forum and find lots of answers to your queations regards the internet and technology. Look forwards to seeing you around J

NeedKarma

I first started with punchcards too, then on to Cobol which I promptly forgot. I remember fondly playing with Basic on teletype terminals.

phillysteakandcheese

Very cool.... And welcome.

valinors_sorrow

Hello Stegosaurus from a Pterodactyl herself, haha.... Welcome!
Whenever I get nostalgic for the good old days, I just watch that oldie but goodie, The Desk Set