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As a CS student at Michigan State in the late 70s I have fond memories of FORTRAN, COBOL, and assembler programming on the 6500.

It was interesting to see many of the design principles from that mid-60s system show up in RISC designs in the 80s and beyond.

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My first exposure to a machine bigger than a 6502-based home computer was a Cyber at the University of Lowell (MA). Not sure the model number, ?600. In 1984 the freshman CS classes were in Pascal, on print terminals. I think my year was the last to use that machine; the following year it was replaced by a VAX 11/780 running VMS.

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