2010-05-01, 05:14 PM
At about age 6, using a card punch
![[Image: ibm-029-keypunch.jpg]](http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/html/graphics/ibm-029-keypunch.jpg)
to punch pretty patterns in hollerith cards
![[Image: PunchCards.jpg]](http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/PunchCards.jpg)
Actually using a computer to program and play (including multi-user games) had to wait until 1979, when I was introduced to PLATO, empire, and moria
good times, good times
to punch pretty patterns in hollerith cards
Actually using a computer to program and play (including multi-user games) had to wait until 1979, when I was introduced to PLATO, empire, and moria
good times, good times