Subj : hello! :DD
To   : Ben Collver
From : Skylar
Date : Mon Apr 15 2024 07:07 pm

  Re: hello! :DD
  By: Ben Collver to mary4 on Mon Apr 15 2024 09:39 am

 >   Re: hello! :DD
 >   By: mary4 to All on Mon Apr 15 2024 09:33 am
 >
 > I remember running a 286 system ages ago.  It was an Orchid upgrade board.

mary4 & Ben, my first full-time programming job started in 1991 and my dev machine was a 286, I think either 10 or 12mhz. It was a startup company and I worked from home the first couple of months, decades before work from home was, hm, a fad I guess?

I had a couple short contracts before that. The full-time job started as part-time. I was 19 and *thrilled* to be paid $6/hr to write code. :D (Min wage in my state was $3.35 at the time.)

All of my paid coding was in C/C++ until 1996, starting with Turbo C and then Borland C++. But my "coding for fun" was almost always using Turbo Pascal. Or BASIC (and a *very* little 6502 assembler) on a C64 and C128.

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