HP TSB card

[JimD]

Eric Smith wrote:

>Jim asks about my account of mark sense batch BASIC vs. HP 2000 TSB:
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>>That wasn't the Portland Or. school distirict, Around 1969-70, was it ?
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>No.
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>I'm not sure exactly when our school district upgraded from the mark sense
>cards and batch BASIC to 2000C Time Shared BASIC, but I started using the
>latter around 1977.
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>Then I got an account on a DECsystem-10 at a different institution and
>taught myself MACRO-10, Fortran, and a bit of ALGOL.  The DEC-10 was much
>nicer, which was not too surprising since the system cost was about ten
>times as much.  But I'm still nostalgic for TSB anyhow.  :-)
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>Eric
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I was just guessing, By the time I was in high school (1970) they had 
moved to ARS33s
But I remember students submitting mark sense cards for overnight batch 
jobs until 1972..
Regardless, The HP 2000 TSB system was for me and  I assume thousands 
of  students,
their first taste of  interactive electronic computing..
Jim Davis.