I don't remember exactly what the program was, but it was on this
this thing that looked like a big adding machine (remember
those?), and was probably
one of the first programmable calculators. We had to hand punch
the cards with paper clips and feed'em through the card
reader to get our program in. It had about 4 or 7 registers we
could store variables in. I'm sure one of the first
programs just counted numbers and printed 1,2,3, etc., and
maybe a later one found prime numbers or something.
First semi-significant program in a real programming language
was a text-based Star-Trek game written in FORTRAN, on a
Dec-10.
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