My first computer! The year was 1962, at Ohio University in Athens, OH;
one of these machines was installed in Super Hall, the home of the physics department.
I remember having lunch (well, burgers and coke...) with Ohlen Cartmell, a fellow
electrical engineering student, and noticing a pad of LGP-30 coding sheets in his pile of books.
Asked him about it, and, as they say, the rest is history. I used up evenings, nights, weekends...
with the likes of Dick Dils, Paul Holzschuler, the late Carl Trivett, many others.

Thanks to Mel Kaye and the others at Royal Precision, we became (or thought
we became) "real programmers" who could work at the binary level, because we had to!

Here are some quick examples of the materials I saved from those days...

Click on the thumbnails for enlargements..

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Legendary "real programmer" 
Mel Kaye wrote a lot of the routines
we used.

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Here's a Mel Kaye original!
 

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Mel's unique initials signature.
 

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