On Friday 06 September 2002 11:53 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 21:18, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 01:39, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 22:12, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > > > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > > > > > Then how about.... Commodore, Sinclair (was that the spelling?) and > > > > others? > > > > > > Don't forget the TI and the one I wrote my first piece of code on ... > > > the HP-45 RPM programmable Calculator. (more fun than the > > > mainframe... it took forever to write, debug and view output from a > > > program it was boring.... the 45 however gave me instant results.) > > > > > > James > > > > The first code I wrote was on a Tandy Color computer (CoCo) in basic. I > > had 16k to work with and no backup cassette tapes, so I had to write > > everything down as I made corrections onscreen. Somewhere around the > > year 1979. > > > > No hard drive, so everything went when the computer was powered down. > > Whenever I wanted to run the program again, I would power the computer > > on and break out my notebook. Then I'd start typing the program in > > again from the notebook notes. > > > > After that I could run the game. ;) > > Know that one... tried editing some code one day the old fashioned > way... but the red pen just messed up my screen *grin*. During my time > at CWRU one of the classes required that you "wipe" the memory on your > programable TI's and HP's..... the groans were unbelievable as many had > probably spent more time programing than studying.... Now I did notice > one thing missing from the trivia list though.... Does anybody else here > know how to use a sliderule? (or maybe I shoud say did.. been so long > I've probably forgotten.) > > James > > > L8r, > > > > LX Yep, learned how to use a "slip stick in '63. I *know* I've forgotten....... Used a Model 14, Model 19 and a <new fangled ASCII> Model 28 for HAM radio RTTY <WA7SYR> for many years. Started out on a Commodore VIC20 then to a C64 then to a <Hot Dawg> 128.. Tandy 1000 was the first "IBM" Compatible I had.... Computing *was* fun then.... Linux has brought back much of the mystery and fun to computing........
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