What medium was your first computer program stored on?

Amiga basic on a floppy.

I miss you Amiga.

5¼” floppy. I just barely missed magnetic tapes and punch card by a couple years….

Cassette tape. I had a PET.

I haven’t written any programs myself, but I’ve been using computers since I was little. Even though I’m still a bit of a young’n, I remember playing Reader Rabbit from a 3½” floppy on my dad’s Apple IIGS.

He got rid of that computer recently. I was so sad. I miss its tiny, 16-color screen.

3½ floppy disk.

VMS Mainframe

@ChazMaz, me, too. Although mine was on a Tandy model of some sort.

quantum pathyway crystal storage device

BASIC on a Commodore 64—so that made it a 5–¼” floppy.

My in-laws programmed in Cobol & Fortran in punchcard stacks, my dad was a Fortran-IV programmer for a while on punchcards.

5¼ floppy….oh the good ole days.

punch cards that we had to carry across campus in special file boxes to have run on the university computer. if it was humid (and central Indiana is humid) the card would not feed. 3 days later you found out if your keypunching was correct and if it even ran. First “home” computer at work was a Tandy with 8” floppy, I still have one next to my sliderule

Turing on a USB, I feel so young ^^

5¼ inch.

The first computer I was ever on was an Apple II Plus in 1979. I was 10. We learned BASIC, thus:

10 INPUT “What is your name: ”, U$
20 PRINT U$; “is awesome!”
20 GOTO 10

@robmandu – Yes before the floppy. Audio cassettes were the standard for PC storage.

5¼ Floppy. I think. Don’t really remember. It may have been written on an original PC, in which case definitely 5¼ floppy. Or it might have been on a TRS 80, in which case it may have been a floppy, or it may have just been in RAM. Did the TRS 80 do that?

paper!

Let’s not forget DNA.

Paper tape.

5¼ floppy. I programmed a visual graphic of “Don’t Panic” in rotating random
colors in Basic on an Apple II back in 1978.

@PupnTaco You are clearly the proto-nerd from which all of us nerds are descended.

First program that I actually wrote was stored on a 5¼ inch floppy disk on an Apple IIe. First computer program that I used was on a cassette tape on a TRS-80.

Our high school had an old 1973 Wang something-or-other and a TRS-80 with tape drives.

I wrote a mortgage amortizer and a calendar printer.

5.25” floppy – learned MS-DOS on an Apple ][e in High School in 1982.

It was written on one of these in this and stored on one of these

cassette, connected to a ZX Spectrum.

Cassette on a Commodore Pet

10 print “hello”
20 goto 10

@RareDenver I’ll bet your program was just Ducky!

DUAL 5–¼ full height drives in my beloved boat anchor Kaypro II. 64k memory! Man what a machine. Cost me 2 months wages.

I used to store programs I wrote in BASIC on my TI-99/4A on a cassette tape.

I have used all of those, but the first was punch cards.

Amiga 1200 hard drive :)

Punch Cards. 2 boxes of em for one project. God help you if anything got out of order.

Now for home computing, First was a cassette tape, Then came the mighty single sided 5–¼! My Cavepro had two mighty drives and 64kilobytes of memory. Which was more than the computer in the basement at the university.