RE: How to participate in the testntets this week (full guide)
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Very fascinating! It’s been a long time since I did any programming (40 years ago in college), but the technical side of blockchains is interesting. I might take a crack at it.
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Wow! What was programming like back in the 1970s?
Scratch that question. What were computers like back in the 1970s?
I'd say big IBM machine with punch cards or 2400-foot magnetic stripes for a hundred mega 😄
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Well, 1980s actually. It was all BASIC and COBOL. And I dabbled in FORTRAN and Pascal. If you asked me to remember them now, I couldn’t. As lost to me as my high school Spanish.
The computer was in a room all by itself and the printers were dot matrix. Everything was hard wired, no WiFi back then. In the late 80s my first PC was a portable I bought from a coworker. It had 640k of Ram and two 5 3/4 inch floppy drives definitely a different time.