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Wow. 71.Yep, going on 71
Not much computing to do in the old days - microprocessors hadn't been invented yet and programming was for mainframe computers and the like.
I dabbled in programming while attending special classes at IIT, Kanpur. A team of us plotted the course for Armstrong & Co.'s trip to the moon on an IBM 1620. The memory was all of 40 kilobytes which was large in both capacity and physical size - it filled a room! We used punched cards and magnetic reels.
I did a deal with him and expected him to be in his 20s.