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		analog31 on Sept 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We need young programmers; We need old programmers I started college in 1982, majoring in math and physics. The professors all had personal computers on their desks. I bought myself one for under $1000 the next year. By the time I graduated, even the computer science professors were using personal computers, though student assignments were still done on the mainframe.

user5994461 on Sept 21, 2020 [–]

Where were you living?

analog31 on Sept 21, 2020 | [–]

I grew up in Michigan and went to one of the many small liberal arts colleges in the state.

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