Many of us have or do make our living from Information Technology and since I get funny looks when I mention that have used punch cards and programmed in assembler, it is perhaps time to provide a history lesson.  First of all, computers pre-date  me (significantly)

Babbage – 1822	Difference Engine – The first mechanical computer
Zuse – 1938	First electro-mechanical computer
Antanasoff-Berry – 1942	First Binary Computer
Aiken-Hopper – 1944	“Mark Series”
Mauchly and Presper Eckert – 1946	“ENIAC”
Sperry-Rand (now Unisys)- 1951	“Univac”
IBM -1952	IBM – 701
IBM – 1959	IBM 7000
Sperry – 1962 (Now Unisys)	Univac 1107 (OS 1100)
Burroughs – 1964 (Now Unisys)	B 5500 (MCP)
IBM – 1964	IBM 360
Digital Equipment –1964 (now HP)	PDP-8 ”The Mini computer” (RSTS)
IBM – 1972	IBM 370 – VM (MVS O/S)
Digital Equipment –1978 (now HP)	The Vax (VMS)
IBM – 1982	5150 – PC (DOS)
Falcon-2010	Fastest PC in the world $8000 and used for gaming… Approx 1,000,000 times more powerful than the Univac 1. (Win 7)

So yes  I missed the Atari, Commodore, TRS-80, Apple I and II , hundreds of mini-computers and other things, but the point being there has been a lot of time prior to Visual Studio 2010, Windows 7 and C# . Besides which, learning assembler would be good for you, call it a cultural experience and character building.

I’ll leave you with this thought.

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or

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