My First Computing Experience. Sitting down to one of these to punch a set of job cards and input data values to run a program that taught us the binary search algorithm. It was a Purdue University during the Summer Engineering Seminars, June 1974. The job was processed by PUFFT, Purdue University Fast FORTRAN Translator, a system that ran on a beautiful IBM 7094. Later that same day, I was typing ALFIE programs on an ASR33 hooked to their CDC 6500 via PROCSY, Purdue Remote Online Console SYstem. All my program did was accept some input and display vulgar expresssions. Later that week though, I was printing roots tables to tale back and use in my Physics class my senior year in high school. -dq