God this thread makes me feel old
I kinda know what you mean. I dont "feel" old, but as you read these kinda threads, you sure sound old.


My high school couldnt afford the punch card machines. As a freshman (1975) we had an IMSAI (8080 processor, 64K memory. It was a kit for approx $500.00). The senior class and a grad student that was teaching us assembled it. It had no keyboard interface. You programmed it using switches on the front panel. It ran CPM and a version of Basic. There was no way to store your program. Everytime you wanted to run it, you had to reprogram.

The next year they bought an "expansion unit". It allowed us to store our programs on cassette tapes.