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by JoeAltmaier 1225 days ago
I don't go back that far. My first computer was an Altair 8800.
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I once met a chap who had done programming with a hand drill....

Ancient mainframe controlling a steel plant, booted from a paper tape that had decades before been replaced with a leather strap. He need to alter something in the boot process - so had to resort to a hand drill :-)