I got you all beat. I can remember in my first year of studying Computer Science in college, I used punched cards to submit my programs to a Univac computer. Used the Pascal language.
Ah the good ole days. Peter Brown, Bruce McDonald, Nelson Skalbania, & Murray Pezim. Pump and Dump at its finest. Even with 6% round trip commissions you could make a buck if you didn't get too greedy.
My brother had one of these...It only weighted 28 pounds!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Executive Yeah, I remember typing in the stock symbol on the phone... It would say; the name of the company, high of the day, low of the day, and the current price... We had it good back then...
First stock trade in HS was selling 2200 shares (inheritance) of Gradco Systems. Opened an account at Paine Webber in Northbrook IL with my dad.
Yeah, but did you guys watch Louis Rukeyser every Friday night? Huh? Well? Didja? I didn't think so... Edit: By the way, the years have been kind to Liz Ann Sonders, eh? She was a frequent guest on WSW.