<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Okay, have to chime in here.<br><br>BASIC and APL on a 110 baud printer terminal connected to Erie BOCES is where it all began for me. <br><br>Then it was writing tank games on 24x80 character TRS-80s. Home was a VIC-20. <br><br>And, like many others, I spent many a night camped out at Ridge Lea campus submitting my FORTRAN decks and debugging. The Cyber 370 was all we had. Later, some DEC PDP-11's were added to the department and we used YACC (Yet Another Compiler Compiler). That was fun... <br><br>Kids today don't realize how easy they have it.<br><br>Len Thornton<br>Info Service Support<br><br><br><br></div></div></body></html>