What was your first job?

@SweetMae you never cease to amaze me. What languages?

@SwampFlower Binary code.

@SweetMae
Hopefully this is correct...

01010011 01110111 01100101 01100101 01110100 01001101 01100001 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110111 01100101 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101

@Viper 🤷‍♀️ I was 17 at time. I've forgotten most of it.

@SweetMae I never learned it, just went to a text program to translate it lol

It's supposed to say

"SweetMae is awesome"

@Viper Thank you! 😊

@Viper Looks right to me and I second the sentiment.

@FrozenWasteland Thank you. 😊

@SweetMae I'm learning all that right now. What was it like back then?

@SubstantialKick There were no books or manuals in the beginning. Everyone had to learn at the same time. I had to pass a math test first. It took pages of code just to get a total at the bottom of a list. There was no computer memory at that time.

@SweetMae It was a different time, for sure. I remember punching cards, reading paper tapes and even loading programs through the computer front panel. Good times.

@FrozenWasteland After I wrote a program, I punched it onto the cards. Then all the data had to be punched onto cards. I have to admit, the sorter was fun!!

@SweetMae Kind of came in handy when you accidentally dropped a card deck.

@FrozenWasteland It was an amazing job for a 17 year old.

@SweetMae It would be. I didn't get a job that had much to do with computers until I was around 20, doing maintenance on the university registration and scheduling software. In COBOL. Even so, it was a great job. Sure beat sweeping floors.