In 1956, Knuth had his first encounter with a computer, an IBM 650 --- a pre-FORTRAN machine. He stayed up all night reading the manual and taught himself basic programming.
"The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."
- From the book "Out of their Minds: TheLives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists" by Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere.
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