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Pablo
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Location: Everson, WA
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Damn. You guys are old.
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PMB
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BadKarma wrote: Cobal, FORTRAN, pascal, basic. Then C, C+. Man, those were the days. Same. We'd boot off a floppy or a cassette tape, then load the single program we wanted to run. I remember being happy to buy 16mb of ram for $450 ish. "Woo hoo! Finally going to be smoking fast for reasonable $!"
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RadioSquatch
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Wetpaperbag wrote: Man I still have a few iomega zip drives and disks packed away somewhere. I suppose I should see what is on them and dump them. I have some 3.5 and 5 inch floppy drives kicking around somewhere. Need to pull out my OLD OLD OLD computer from growing up. Had windows 98 on one drive and windows 3.1 on the other hard drive. Still works too after all these years
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Pablo
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Throw that shit away!
Yeah ok I had to learn FORTRAN w/WATFIV in 1977.
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Why does the Penguin in Batman sound like a duck?
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hkcavalier
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Not quite as old as you guys, but I remember hand coding BASIC and Assembly programs for my C64 right from Compute! or Compute! Gazette. I think I was 9 or 10.
I wasn't so eager with the ML versions...I think they were in straight hexadecimal. My eyes hurt just thinking of trying. But it did train me to type without looking at my hands or the screen, not a bad skill to have.
While I've heard of guys who could really code from scratch in Assembly, I don't believe anyone could/can in ML.
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PMB
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hkcavalier wrote: While I've heard of guys who could really code from scratch in Assembly, I don't believe anyone could/can in ML. I would be floored. That would be an impressive skill in the current throughput... LOL I'd bet that some of the engineers working on chip layout still do some straight ML stuff...
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RENCORP
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Location: East of Japan, not by much.
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We had a Commodore 64 before the cassette tape hard drive was released to market - that was a screaming deal upgrade for the computer back then.
We had the CRT monitor as well.
I still have my Apple Graphite lap top, the second generation laptop computer made by Stevie Jobs back in the day.
Nobody knew what an IPhone was back then. Motorola's Star Tac ruled the cellular world when that lap top was released.
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