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This was the second computer I used in '73 or so in the math department at a local community college. Shortly before, I had gone to the Lawrence Hall of Science to use their (first model) HP 3000. I mainly used BASIC on both of them. BASIC was developed at Dartmouth in the mid-60s. FORTRAN was developed in the mid-50s by IBM. COBOL, also from IBM, was from the late '50s. One language also from '59 or so that is still in serious use around the world is LISP. Though most of my coding these days is in Java, I still prefer Common Lisp (the ANSI standard): a beautiful, elegant, and well-designed language. All other programming languages have been trying to get where Lisp was 40 years ago.

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