Alan Kay wrote:
> 
> At 6:57 PM -0800 5/8/00, Bob Arning wrote:
> >On Mon, 8 May 2000 22:44:37 -0400 "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> >wrote:
> >>It would be nice if someone with too much time on their hands could
> >>do a PunchCardMorph so we could visualize this a little more directly.
> >
> >I think that would be a hoot. I'll give it a shot. Now who wants to do the
> >1401 emulator?
> 
> Ah ... my very first real computer (1961) ...
> 
> It actually had an unusual and pretty nifty architecture.

My first computer was a TI57 calculator. It had a memory for 50
programming steps in an assembler like language...
That was enough to write programs to calculate prim numbers!

And it was payable by a high school ('Gymnasium', don't know the class)
person...

Greetings,

Stephan

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan

-- 
Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
   "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
    You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
    -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3