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malthaussen

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2. This story reminds me of my first computer course...

Reply to mikelewis (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2025, 02:54 PM

Feb 2025

... we were working on a Facit computer (Facit was a typewriter/business machine company) that had a whole kilobyte of memory. Programming in machine code, not even Assembly. It took the whole semester just to learn how to make the thing say "Hello."

-- Mal

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