On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 05:10, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:17, Mike Dresser wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > > It was fairly common in the early 80's for application source to be > > > printed in a variety of magizines and to be shared between users. I'm > > > not referring to pirated software, but rather Free software. I remember > > > Commodore (yes Commodore) magazines with the source for applications > > > printed among their pages. > > > > Home comput(er/ing) Magazine (HCM) used to publish code for 5 or 6 > > different computers, atari 800?, ti99/4a, c64, vic/20, etc. Back in the > > early 80's, so I dont'r emember what all they covered. 99'r mag had a > > similar idea, but only for the ti99/4a. > > > > Talk about portability, even back then. They actually had a program you > > inputted your program into, and it would do a crude checksum to make sure > > you typed your code in properly. > > > > Have i dated myself now? :D > > Not terribly. All you've told us is that you're most likely somewhere at > or after your early to mid twenties. :) > > I'm 23 and I remember helping my dad type in code for our Commodore 64 > from a magazine... and today I'm a 'Linux Geek(tm)'... imagine that... > ;) > > Now, if you were to say that you read the original printing of 'The > Story of Mel' during your lunch break one day and agreed wholeheartedly, > THEN you would be dating yourself. ;)
I consider myself dated, then - I started programming about a year before the TRS-80 hit the market, and to do *effective* things, you programmed like Mel, on the iron, and maybe called it from a BASIC program if you needed some of that. I typed in all manner of programs from Creative Computing and Byte, translating between BASIC dialects and system design differences for the three systems I had access to at the time: the TRS-80, an Apple ][+, and an HP 9830A with a one line, 32 character LED alphanumeric display. But when I programmed things from scratch, I had self-modifying code and tweaks of individual memory locations as a given. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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