On Sunday 03 April 2011 15:13:09 luis jure wrote: > on 2011-04-03 at 10:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage > >might be a little too challenging. > > 3.5? wow, i always thought that the name meant it had 20K... like the C64 > and C128. but no. now, almost 30 years later, i learn that it had 5K, 1.5 > of them used by the system (you wouldn't want to leave the system without > ram, would you?) > > i never had a vic-20 (my first computer was the atari st-1040 in 1988), > but a friend of mine had one in the early 80's and i always wondered at > all the things you could do with the thing. i couldn't program, so i used > to sit next by him telling him my ideas for a program for algorithmic > composition, that he tried to code.
Nice, a walk down memory lane :) The first computer we had at home (apart from an IBM my dad borrowed a few times) was an Atari 1040 ST. We got it in 1986 and I can't even remember all the things I did with it. It came with a copy of GFA Basic. This was a bit like C or Pascal, but then with Basic commands. No line numbers, a decent editor and a compiler and linker. I could mix machine-code, basic-code and C-code into a final program to get a faster result. The machine still worked last time I tried it and is currently still stored at my parents with strict instructions not to throw it away :) -- Joost
