Originally Posted by KRL

Hah, hah, ya know when I was in Computer Club in high school we just had IBM punch tapes to code our programs on and orange vacuum tubes to display numerical equation results. Didn't even have moniters yet. LOL

So when the IBM PC, Atari, Apple's first machines, etc, came out, yeh they had these basic 8 color displays, but we thought that was incredible and cutting edge at the time.



Here's a pic of how we'd save our programs to punch hole tapes. And don't laugh tooooo hard.