My Trails into the Past

It's  Saturday Night  - Time for more  Genealogy Fun! Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 1) I am a slave to my computer - how about you?  What is your computer history - what have you used, when did you get it, what did you do on it, etc.? Here's mine: My first exposure to computers was in 6th grade (1966) when we took a field trip to a big business in San Francisco and saw the big IBM computer. I think the business might have been Wells Fargo Bank’s office building. For souvenirs, we each got a punch card to take home. In college, I was a bio major, but used a slide rule in chemistry classes. Calculators were very expensive and I couldn’t afford one. In my senior year, I took a programming class offered in the math department at Cal State University, Hayward. The instructor taught us BASIC, FORTRAN, and COBOL. Basically, he told us what to make the computer do, and how to do it in three different languages. The small compute...