Like many tech-oriented people, I learned to program #computers in high school. HOWEVER, for me that was in 1965.

Cass Tech in #Detroit #Michigan was given an IBM1620 by IBM and we learned to program in straight binary, SPS (assembly-like language), and FORTRAN II.

Weird machine that had no fixed word size but operated on "strings" of 6-bit characters. More details in the alt text of the image and at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620