Another old timer here. I took the first class my high school offered in programming back about 1970 or so. Timesharing to a Burroughs B5500 mainframe via a mod 33 teletype and acoustic modem. Paper tape for storage. ;-) I read about the Altair when it came out and wanted one, but as a poor college student, there was no way. After I started working for Burroughs, I was able to cobble together a Z-80 based system from scrapped stuff, using plans from Byte and Kilobaud magazines. Ugly, but it worked. ;-) But I got bored with fingerboning code into the front panel in binary, and bought an Atari 800. Wow! 88k floppy disks! Then we started hearing rumors about this ultra cool "Lorraine" computer....
