HP TSB card

[Eric Smith]

Jim asks about my account of mark sense batch BASIC vs. HP 2000 TSB:
> That wasn't the Portland Or. school distirict, Around 1969-70, was it ?

No.

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.

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.  :-)

Eric