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by cosmicray 5622 days ago
Started out in a college in the early 70's as an EE major. Fortran was a required course. Decided I like it so much better, that I switched majors. Spent a summer hacking the OS internals on the college mainframe to make it more efficient. Learned 360 BAL in the process.

What I carry in my pocket (an ipod touch) is orders of magnitude more powerful than that mainframe was.