Quaint and Arcane Terms
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:) Or RUN, LOAD and SAVE, (Spectrum ZX). :) Remember hooking your cassete recorder up to the spectrum, inserting the tape, jugling finger presses, tweaking the tone and volume to get a better load...
"If climate has not "tipped" in over 4 billion years it's not going to tip now due to mankind." Richard S. Lindzen, Atmospheric Physicist, IPCC "It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you here are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period." Professor Richard Feynman
They were fairly generic terms in the 80's! But the volume settings on the ZX80 and 81 were impressively restrictive. The Speccy was much more forgiving.
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I read an earlier post about GOTO statements. How many people remember using GOSUB? Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL? Did you ever POKE and PEEK? And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:" Some of the parvenu will never has come across these, whilst the greybeards will look back fondly...(or possibly with contempt).
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Dalek Dave wrote:
PEEK
Sure - back in school we did that all the time around the girls' locker rooms...
Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house...
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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:) Or RUN, LOAD and SAVE, (Spectrum ZX). :) Remember hooking your cassete recorder up to the spectrum, inserting the tape, jugling finger presses, tweaking the tone and volume to get a better load...
"If climate has not "tipped" in over 4 billion years it's not going to tip now due to mankind." Richard S. Lindzen, Atmospheric Physicist, IPCC "It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you here are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period." Professor Richard Feynman
As I already said: No BASIC. A real computer has a hex keypad and tapes are loaded like this: (Reset) (Load Mode) C0 F0 00 <-- jump into ROM with the cassette loader (Reset) (Run Mode) 04 00 00 0F FF <-- tell loader to load from 0000 to 0FFF (wait until loading is done) (Reset) (Run Mode)
"I just exchanged opinions with my boss. I went in with mine and came out with his." - me, 2011
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As I already said: No BASIC. A real computer has a hex keypad and tapes are loaded like this: (Reset) (Load Mode) C0 F0 00 <-- jump into ROM with the cassette loader (Reset) (Run Mode) 04 00 00 0F FF <-- tell loader to load from 0000 to 0FFF (wait until loading is done) (Reset) (Run Mode)
"I just exchanged opinions with my boss. I went in with mine and came out with his." - me, 2011
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I read an earlier post about GOTO statements. How many people remember using GOSUB? Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL? Did you ever POKE and PEEK? And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:" Some of the parvenu will never has come across these, whilst the greybeards will look back fondly...(or possibly with contempt).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
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I read an earlier post about GOTO statements. How many people remember using GOSUB? Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL? Did you ever POKE and PEEK? And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:" Some of the parvenu will never has come across these, whilst the greybeards will look back fondly...(or possibly with contempt).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Sadly yes. As for the A drive, there was a line from a comic spoof "General failure reading drive A - Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk drive?"
Ger
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Sadly yes. As for the A drive, there was a line from a comic spoof "General failure reading drive A - Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk drive?"
Ger
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I read an earlier post about GOTO statements. How many people remember using GOSUB? Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL? Did you ever POKE and PEEK? And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:" Some of the parvenu will never has come across these, whilst the greybeards will look back fondly...(or possibly with contempt).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
i was using GOSUB (well, it's Clarion equivalent) less than two years ago. and i spent most of last year translating COBOL's version into C++. good times. IPLs sucked. POKE and PEEK were fun. it's nice to be that close to the metal.
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I read an earlier post about GOTO statements. How many people remember using GOSUB? Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL? Did you ever POKE and PEEK? And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:" Some of the parvenu will never has come across these, whilst the greybeards will look back fondly...(or possibly with contempt).
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Dalek Dave wrote:
And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:"
5 Mins ago. My work computer still has a floppy drive.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:"
5 Mins ago. My work computer still has a floppy drive.
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I read an earlier post about GOTO statements. How many people remember using GOSUB? Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL? Did you ever POKE and PEEK? And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:" Some of the parvenu will never has come across these, whilst the greybeards will look back fondly...(or possibly with contempt).
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How about compiling Novell NetWare 2.x on a stack of about 25 floppies? Now THAT I reflect upon with contempt.
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Dave Kreskowiak -
Dalek Dave wrote:
Did you ever POKE and PEEK?
Yep! And the wife and I do it every night!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braunahmed zahmed wrote:
Yep! And the wife and I do it every night!
:laugh: +5
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How about compiling Novell NetWare 2.x on a stack of about 25 floppies? Now THAT I reflect upon with contempt.
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Dave KreskowiakI remember using 8" Floppies (much room for innuendo there, feel free), and also the joy when 1.2 meg 5.25" floppies were available.
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I read an earlier post about GOTO statements. How many people remember using GOSUB? Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL? Did you ever POKE and PEEK? And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:" Some of the parvenu will never has come across these, whilst the greybeards will look back fondly...(or possibly with contempt).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
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I read an earlier post about GOTO statements. How many people remember using GOSUB? Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL? Did you ever POKE and PEEK? And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:" Some of the parvenu will never has come across these, whilst the greybeards will look back fondly...(or possibly with contempt).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
1. Yes 2. Yes 3. Many times. 4. Yesterday!
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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1. Yes 2. Yes 3. Many times. 4. Yesterday!
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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The number 1765000 comes to mind :)
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I read an earlier post about GOTO statements. How many people remember using GOSUB? Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL? Did you ever POKE and PEEK? And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:" Some of the parvenu will never has come across these, whilst the greybeards will look back fondly...(or possibly with contempt).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
I used to have a permanent callous on my left thumb made by repeatedly cancelling the switches when inputting a bootstrap program
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I read an earlier post about GOTO statements. How many people remember using GOSUB? Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL? Did you ever POKE and PEEK? And how long has it been since you saw "Insert next disk into Drive A:" Some of the parvenu will never has come across these, whilst the greybeards will look back fondly...(or possibly with contempt).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
How many people remember using GOSUB?
Yes. Remember it.
Dalek Dave wrote:
Are you old enough to remember having to do an IPL?
No.
Dalek Dave wrote:
Did you ever POKE and PEEK?
No.
Dalek Dave wrote:
"Insert next disk into Drive A:"
Yes. Remember that too.
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