I’m picturing @tbg bringing one of these to work, snapping a pic of his punch cards. “My grandkids are never going to believe this…”
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Don’t make me laugh, that was one of my families exact camera when I was a kid. Wish I still had it, as I’m sure it would be quite the collectors item these days.
Most cameras were pretty bulky, until the replaceable flash bulb went out of style in the 70’s.
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(68) My first computer exposure was in high school. It was a timeshare teletype terminal connected to a remote GE BASIC system. The terminal had a punched paper tape reader/puncher.
In college, the school had a CDC 6000 mainframe. I might still have a punch card program deck with diagonal stripes marked on the edge. The stripes helped resort the deck if the rubber band broke.
At work, I started with Z80 assembler, and then C at my second job, but I never warmed up to object oriented programming… The Linux kernel feels familiar, that is until Rust eventually takes over.
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Kodak Brownie, here. Then a long procession of Polaroids for my father’s use in real estate. God, the smell of the fixative! I swear you could prolly get high off the stuff. 
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MY first ¨exposure¨ to computers was an IBM 5170 that was upgraded to something like a 386, I never knew. It was on the office of one of my Mother’s friends. I saw it, I got mesmerized, and the next year I started studying programming. I was 6 years old the first time, and I started studying at 7
I started with Basic (GW-BASIC) and Quick Basic on upgraded 8088´s, then I went to Windows 2.x and OS/2, then back to programming with Visual Basic (the old DOS one), then back to Office (MS Office and Corel) and then I dedicated 2 years to hardware, where I mostly worked with PC´s, a few Amigas and even ONE C64!
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Just like worksheets in school made with a ditto machine. 
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UHU Hart and most Cyanoacrylates.
Your age is showing. 
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