I first learned machine language on a PDP-5, which was similar to the PDP-8, but limited to 4KB of memory. Mostly I just used it to toggle in small programs through the console switches, but I think we got the FOCAL [wikipedia.org] interpreter running on it at one point. Those were the days. To think now there is a generation of programmers who have known nothing but JavaScript.
Learned on a PDP-5 (Score:1)
I first learned machine language on a PDP-5, which was similar to the PDP-8, but limited to 4KB of memory. Mostly I just used it to toggle in small programs through the console switches, but I think we got the FOCAL [wikipedia.org] interpreter running on it at one point. Those were the days. To think now there is a generation of programmers who have known nothing but JavaScript.