Your first experience with a PC! ..or any computer!
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
I remember my Dad brought home a ZX81[^] and 16k RAMpak that he borrowed from his friend. In 81, I would have been about 9 or 10 years old. I remember typing in small programs from the book, and being amazed by it. I also couldn't figure out that if I actually typed the 5 letters of the word "PRINT", it would give a syntax error, but if I let the computer type the word for me (by using the alt + key combination for PRINT) then it would work just fine. My first introduction to cognitive friction of user interfaces! After that, we purchased the 48k Oric Atmos[^], which was much better - it had sound and colors and everything! I actually wrote a small game for it called "Bug-Man Boris", in which you had to guide Boris around the screen to catch a bug that was randomly wandering about. Once you caught it, you had to take it to a holding area, at which point the time allowed to catch the next bug would decrease by 10 seconds. I submitted the game to the "Oric User" magazine, but they rejected it - and then announced their last issue the following month!
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
My dad arrived home one day, popped the boot of his beige Toyota Corolla and proudly displayed a beige 286. We rushed it inside, hooked it up on my desk and booted into the glory that was the command line prompt. I must have been about 9 or so. One thing that has stuck with me was playing the snake game that came with DOS and then going into the code and changing the body of the snake to a bunch of crazy characters. So much fun :)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
Aaaah, the memories ...
10 PLOT 0,0 20 DRAW 100, 100 ... RUNI used to have a CIP-03[^] when I was about ten, which is actually the (illegal - I guess) Sinclair ZX-Spectrum[^] clone, our then communist country "borrowed". Anyhow, I remember enjoying mostly drawing and the fact that I couldn't find any books about the "Basic S" as they called it (thought it was actually the "Sinclair BASIC") except the manual the computer came with which was very poor.Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
BBC Micro-Computer. I remember we were trying to get a "print" statement working in teh first class but never got it to work. Also at that time we had an impression that computer know everything. We repeatedly asked the question: "Who was the Champion of Champions in the World Series Cup?" and of course we got an error each time. :)
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
I don't know what make and model it was, but back in the '70s at the Boston Museum of Science there was a computer on which one could play Tic Tac Toe! I'm pretty sure it wouldn't play Global Thermonuclear War. :-D I first learned BASIC-Plus on a PDP-11 in 1983. I didn't use a PC until about 1989 -- 386. The first computer I owned was a 486.
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
When I started college in 78 the science dept. had a IBM 1420?? we called it the coffin and could play a form of star trek on it. But they also had an Altair with the lights and switches on the front which I took home and had a ball with. Upon graduating I was hired to program in assembler on an Apple II using ProDOS. The owner of the company would come around periodically and pick up floppies of our work so he could compile them on his machine which had a 5MB external drive that sounded like a 737 when it was running. Ah the good old days? Mike
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin"
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
VuNic wrote:
What's your story?
Still learning.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
My first experience with a computer was in college, programming class in Fortran using punch cards! (1978 or 1979) My first experience on a "Non-Mainframe" computer was on a Fluke 1620 (?? Model number) Controller. This was a small, rack-mounted, computer that had an IEEE-488 Port (a.k.a. GPIB) to control test instrumentation. This was programmed in interpretive Basic but had the ability to create compiled Fortran functions, that you could then call from Basic. (about 1982) My first experience on a "Personal" computer was an "original" IBM-PC: 8086 processor running at 4.77MHz with 256Kbytes of memory and a dual 5 1/4 Floppy drive (360K). This I also programmed in interpretive Basic (BASICA). (about 1983)
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
Back in the early 80s mine seemed to like the phrase "SYNTAX ERROR" and "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE". Also "OUT OF MEMORY". Although after some begging, I got my parents to shell out several hundred dollars for the 8K memory upgrade that made this error go away...
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My dad arrived home one day, popped the boot of his beige Toyota Corolla and proudly displayed a beige 286. We rushed it inside, hooked it up on my desk and booted into the glory that was the command line prompt. I must have been about 9 or so. One thing that has stuck with me was playing the snake game that came with DOS and then going into the code and changing the body of the snake to a bunch of crazy characters. So much fun :)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
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My dad arrived home one day, popped the boot of his beige Toyota Corolla and proudly displayed a beige 286. We rushed it inside, hooked it up on my desk and booted into the glory that was the command line prompt. I must have been about 9 or so. One thing that has stuck with me was playing the snake game that came with DOS and then going into the code and changing the body of the snake to a bunch of crazy characters. So much fun :)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
Paul Watson wrote:
...popped the boot of his beige Toyota Corolla...
Boot? Was the car a convertible, or is that a seat cover?
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
10 PRINT "1983, Commodore PET "; 20 GOTO 10 RUN 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET
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VuNic wrote:
but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
I missed the punch cards by one year woohoo!! What did I start you in a memory mode? :) you want me to copy and paste for everyone else? you already know the answer. ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Yeah just tuned my telephathy reciever. Got it,:rolleyes:. Let me put it to display so that the mundane human would be able to read it :-D.. --Removed--- Since you've already put the original one :)
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
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Here's mine. At the age of 13, I managed to touch a PC[Thinks it's a 386] for the first time in a computer lab. It had a floppy booted MS DOS. That beeps loudly at boot up. When I first saw a computer I couldn't even guess it's purpose. I was even amazed by the fact that , if we press a key, it gets displayed on the screen!:-O [btw, I still wonder at it.that's a different thing]. I was tempted to type my name there. And the sequence : ME: C:>VUNIC. DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. (after thinking for a while about it's response) ME: BADCOMMAND DOS: BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: FILENAME DOS : BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME ME: Asshole, you gave me only two options. :mad: As it tells you,I managed to use a pc at an early age, but still I did not manage to see how a punched card looks like. What's your story?
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
Univac 1100 series as I recall. 1975. It resided behind the glass wall in the room with all the scary signs about the dangers of the fire extinguisher's gases, the raised floor, the many cabinets of electronics, whirring tape drives and spaceship-looking disk packs. Watching the white-coated priests of technology tend to their ablutions. Whoa. I sat down as a 13 yr old in front of a teletype in a windowless University computer lab full of these clattering beasts. Deafening. No stinkin' punch cards here, this baby was interactive! (You could go the paper-tape route if needed though....) My older brother showed me how to run the BASIC tutorial.
TUT01. That was it-I was done in. I surfaced 8 hours later a programmer.:cool: I had scroll upon scroll of print outs. My head throbbed, my eyes hurt. I needed the juice now. Soon, I got to play with my brothers KIM-1 6502 microprocessor board with the hex pad and a 6 Alphanumeric LED character display. Then the big leagues: An Ohio Scientific C1P - Basic Interpreter, cassette tape interface, 16K. But of course I lusted after an Apple II. Color Graphics. Disks. CP/M card. An absolute plethora of PC's - Kaypro "portable" and a succession of custom systems I built. OMG :omg: I had to have a Mac. and another. and another. Currently a 1.8 gig Dual core system running XP that's servicable. Not as much fun as the Apple II though... I'd forgotten... Back to work... Thanks for the diversion! Buzzby I spend way too much time with computers. -
Yeah just tuned my telephathy reciever. Got it,:rolleyes:. Let me put it to display so that the mundane human would be able to read it :-D.. --Removed--- Since you've already put the original one :)
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
VuNic wrote:
Yeah just tuned my telephathy reciever.
naw I mentioned elsewhere that I fixed a basic computer for the school. :) that was my first experience.... I expanded it a bit. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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10 PRINT "1983, Commodore PET "; 20 GOTO 10 RUN 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET 1983, Commodore PET
I thought you again started saying something like "Buffalo,Buffalo,Buffalo,Buffalo,Buffalo"... LOL!!!!:-D Well, looking at your "code", it tells me one thing, When I started doing BASIC, I pretty much liked it. And I'm sure that the BASIC, or the GWBASIC was never much cursed or flamed by any one as we do on it's brother VB these days. And also, in a medium sized code , may be around 300 LOC, I used to find a lots of "GOTO"s , and it wasn't considered sin. May be it's because we had assembly as it's contemporary and using JMP, JE, JNE kinda things? goto would have been thought something similar to that, but later we could've realized what it is :). I loved the graphics in GWBASIC, 10 BEGIN 20 FOR I = 1 to 10 30 CIRCLE(300,300,I); 40 NEXT I 50 END :-O
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
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BBC Micro-Computer. I remember we were trying to get a "print" statement working in teh first class but never got it to work. Also at that time we had an impression that computer know everything. We repeatedly asked the question: "Who was the Champion of Champions in the World Series Cup?" and of course we got an error each time. :)
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
I remember we were trying to get a "print" statement working in teh first class but never got it to work. Also at that time we had an impression that computer know everything. We repeatedly asked the question: "Who was the Champion of Champions in the World Series Cup?" and of course we got an error each time.
Exactly! We thought the same. but to the extent that I thought it would know me. But in moments later, I realized it's limits and came down to it's level and typed this.
c:>2+3= ?
And the data entry operator there asked me to put the question mark at the begining like ,C:>?2+3 C:>5
and it worked. Hey will that work now in our command prompt?? let me see :)
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
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I don't know what make and model it was, but back in the '70s at the Boston Museum of Science there was a computer on which one could play Tic Tac Toe! I'm pretty sure it wouldn't play Global Thermonuclear War. :-D I first learned BASIC-Plus on a PDP-11 in 1983. I didn't use a PC until about 1989 -- 386. The first computer I owned was a 486.
My first game was ...hmm something like, SPACE... it starts with "SPACE" much like "Galaxian" we found in video games. About the SPACE..,Rows alien ships come down attacking our plane, which is stuck to the last row of the monitor :) and can only move to the sides. Only 3 key usage. <-- --> and the space bad to fire.
The Advantage in work-from-home is that... we can blame the dog -Mark Salsbery Best wishes to Rexx[^]
