Really, what started it all was that we got some ADM-3As to do screen editing. I remember right after Carter was elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor. That dates it: it was probably ’76. It was really a consequence of our initial frustration with Pascal. It went on from there. I stopped working on it whenever they made the reference cards - ’78-’79 - and I really haven’t worked on it for five years.
Which would be November 6, 1976.
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