or work/play.

So can't count playing Star Trek (by whatever name) on CDC-6600 via TI thermal-paper terminal or fiddling with a Commodore PET (actually used for some measurements regarding huge motor-generator sets) or hP programmable calculators.

OK.. CD 6600 (or 7600) assembling via punch-card batch for PDP-8. Program returned as punched paper tape for ASR-33, and on magnetic tape.. with maybe an inch of that giant reel used.
Load Point: whoosh, whirrrrr, zoom; then .. .. a 10G-STOP.
Fun.. killing a gnat with HMS Hood's (?) 16" guns.

The FORTRAN class brought early awareness that, Boolean manipulations would likely be my pianissimo, never mind.. \ufffdorte

But I did buy Osborne1 #0289 and, WordStar Lives in my firmware.
Mousing for attributes with hands off the HOME keys - sux as badly today as ever; a super-fast typist doing super and subscripts for isotopes and such [descriptive, as opposed to math formulae] -- on WS, will blow the M$Word slothful type outta the water. Still. er, {chortle}



pip B:=A:xxxx - Reverse Polish; eet eez Efferywhere