Just bunged them a tenner
I learned to code on an IBM 360/44 at St Andrews in the mid-70s. Amazingly advanced really, 256K core, usually split to 2 partitions, one for foreground time-sharing system, supporting a dozen VDUs, the other for background jobs. For something big you could request 'full core'!
Played my first computer game on it - a lunar lander that ran on a raster graphics terminal.
Then moved up to IBM 370s when I started paid work.
Ah, the good old days, when computers were real computers, and you had to wait hours for a compilation to run. Tell that to kids these days...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
