The sixties. What can I say? It was the era of the counterculture: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” The Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK. Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, campus riots, Kent State, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. And the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation.
It was also the decade when humankind first ventured into space.
I became a programmer in 1964 at the age of 12. My mother gave me a birthday present that I still have today. It was a Digi-Comp I, made by E.S.R. Inc.
This little machine fascinated me. It has three red flip-flops that can slide back and forth and drive ...
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