You whippersnappers may not remember there was a time when there was no commercial software, with the exception of assemblers and, if you were lucky, compilers. Somebody showed you how to punch cards or paper tape and gave you an instruction manual. (Thinking Datatron 205 or IBM 1620.)
So there were mostly no bugs except your own. There was little "OS" except a boot loader. There was no "network" and no bad guys lurking around.
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You whippersnappers may not remember there was a time when there was no commercial software, with the exception of assemblers and, if you were lucky, compilers. Somebody showed you how to punch cards or paper tape and gave you an instruction manual. (Thinking Datatron 205 or IBM 1620.)
So there were mostly no bugs except your own. There was little "OS" except a boot loader. There was no "network" and no bad guys lurking around.
It was a lot of fun.
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