My high school got a PDP-11/34 when I was a sophomore (class of '82), and offered a one-week intro that summer to all interested students. I was hooked, and wound up taking programming courses in junior and senior years (BASIC as a junior, COBOL as a senior). We were running RSTS/E, with BASIC-PLUS and WATBOL. WATFOR was also available, but none of my courses used it.
TECO scared me away; all I ever learned was how to load and run VTEDIT, if I were lucky enough to get one of the few VT100s. Unfortunately, most of the terminals were Visual 200s which frequently broke down and only emulated VT52.
Noting my interest, my dad went out and bought an Apple II+, and mostly by keying in program listings I taught myself 6502 assembler. A Heathkit H-11 (an LSI-11 system in kit form) would have really rocked, but I had a lot of fun with the Apple just the same.
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My high school got a PDP-11/34 when I was a sophomore (class of '82), and offered a one-week intro that summer to all interested students. I was hooked, and wound up taking programming courses in junior and senior years (BASIC as a junior, COBOL as a senior). We were running RSTS/E, with BASIC-PLUS and WATBOL. WATFOR was also available, but none of my courses used it.
TECO scared me away; all I ever learned was how to load and run VTEDIT, if I were lucky enough to get one of the few VT100s. Unfortunately, most of the terminals were Visual 200s which frequently broke down and only emulated VT52.
Noting my interest, my dad went out and bought an Apple II+, and mostly by keying in program listings I taught myself 6502 assembler. A Heathkit H-11 (an LSI-11 system in kit form) would have really rocked, but I had a lot of fun with the Apple just the same.