Good old days
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
My class-10 project was a Dbase 3+ clone written in GWBASIC. I don't have the source code today. I vaguely remember throwing away some old floppy disks (several years ago). One of my biggest regrets ever! :((
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
I have a lot of my old software. Trouble is most of it I no longer have the hardware to read the format it is on: 3 1/2" floppy? (nope), 5 1/4" floppy? (nope) 8" floppy? (nope) Microfiche? (Only if I have a good magnifying glass and a lot of patience)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
The first big piece of software I ever wrote was my senior design project in school. I built a 3D graphics package that demonstrated hidden-surface removal using Binary Space Partitioning trees[^]. This was in 1983, two years after Fuchs, Kedem, and Naylor published their paper. My app was written in PL-I/80, running on a Z80-based CP/M system in our university computer graphics lab. The storage media at the time were 8-inch floppy disks. It took almost a minute to render an image, and you had to swap floppy disks a couple of times. The app was so big I had to use overlays (a manual sort of virtual memory for you youngsters). I still have the source code to that application. I've managed to successfully transfer it from one machine to another. It's now on a CD-R.
Software Zen:
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The first big piece of software I ever wrote was my senior design project in school. I built a 3D graphics package that demonstrated hidden-surface removal using Binary Space Partitioning trees[^]. This was in 1983, two years after Fuchs, Kedem, and Naylor published their paper. My app was written in PL-I/80, running on a Z80-based CP/M system in our university computer graphics lab. The storage media at the time were 8-inch floppy disks. It took almost a minute to render an image, and you had to swap floppy disks a couple of times. The app was so big I had to use overlays (a manual sort of virtual memory for you youngsters). I still have the source code to that application. I've managed to successfully transfer it from one machine to another. It's now on a CD-R.
Software Zen:
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
Had to think for a minute. The first program I wrote for work was in BASIC. Programmed a material testing machine. The program was "writen" on punch tape. Would like to have the code sheets but back then I did not care and tossed them when we got a computer with storage.
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
d@nish wrote:
how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
I remember it, but I no longer have a copy; bugs ate the paper tape
Will Rogers never met me.
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
An entire game and game level editor in 68000 assembler for the Atari ST. I dont have the final source but I do have a close copy. The exe's run nicely under steam :D
If you vote me down, my score will only get lower
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
Yes, I still have mine. It was a mix of Fortran and Algol and was used in my MS Thesis back in 1975.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I have a lot of my old software. Trouble is most of it I no longer have the hardware to read the format it is on: 3 1/2" floppy? (nope), 5 1/4" floppy? (nope) 8" floppy? (nope) Microfiche? (Only if I have a good magnifying glass and a lot of patience)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Purely out of interest, did you use a system that could output to microfiche or were they transferred to it later for archiving?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
I have printouts (barely legible now) of all the (incomprehensible, BASICplus) programs I turned in for my first few computer classes (high school, 1983 & 1984). I have several programs on 5.25" floppy from college (mostly Pascal*, all upper-case, I can't read them anymore either). Also some (Turbo) C programs from college. I also have many other Turbo Pascal and Turbo C programs (mostly games) I developed on my own. * From those classes that used Turbo Pascal rather than VAX Pascal. Because I learned primarily on minicomputers (PDP-11, VAX-11) and used such equipment on all my jobs up until 2002, much of my old code is lost as I couldn't make soft copies of it. However, I do have all the code I wrote for my first strictly programming job (1994) because I was using a PC and a terminus emulator and was able to easily copy the (VAX C) code to a 3.5" floppy. :thumbsup: As far as I know it's still in use automating some data gathering in a manufacturing plant in San Diego.
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I have printouts (barely legible now) of all the (incomprehensible, BASICplus) programs I turned in for my first few computer classes (high school, 1983 & 1984). I have several programs on 5.25" floppy from college (mostly Pascal*, all upper-case, I can't read them anymore either). Also some (Turbo) C programs from college. I also have many other Turbo Pascal and Turbo C programs (mostly games) I developed on my own. * From those classes that used Turbo Pascal rather than VAX Pascal. Because I learned primarily on minicomputers (PDP-11, VAX-11) and used such equipment on all my jobs up until 2002, much of my old code is lost as I couldn't make soft copies of it. However, I do have all the code I wrote for my first strictly programming job (1994) because I was using a PC and a terminus emulator and was able to easily copy the (VAX C) code to a 3.5" floppy. :thumbsup: As far as I know it's still in use automating some data gathering in a manufacturing plant in San Diego.
I still have Turbo Pascal 5.5, and the manuals that came with it. All I need now is a PC slow enough to run it. ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
d@nish wrote:
The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program
It has not happened yet, but I won’t give up!
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Thanks :-\. This was a great project, and a great learning experience for me. The biggest thing I learned was what happens when a project is a lot of fun, very cool, and gets waaaaay out of hand :-O.
Software Zen:
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I still have Turbo Pascal 5.5, and the manuals that came with it. All I need now is a PC slow enough to run it. ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
It's kind of fun to start up some of the old DOS apps now and then. They absolutely scream on modern hardware.
Software Zen:
delete this; -
I still have Turbo Pascal 5.5, and the manuals that came with it. All I need now is a PC slow enough to run it. ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
I still have the book and 5.25" floppies for Turbo BASIC*, but the books and floppies for Turbo/Borland Pascal, C, and C++ are long gone, purged while moving. * Other than graphics, it was still working on my current hardware with WinXP last year, but not with Win7. :sigh: I expect that Turbo Pascal would work about as well. If I feel the need for Pascal (Bob forbid), I'll likely do so on one of my AlphaServers, that's where I usually do C now. I could also install COBOL and maybe Fortran :-D .
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One of my replies to my post below reminded me of first ever decent piece of software I had written. I do not have it anymore with me but would really love to get it back and see what I did back then. The question is, how many of you remember your first decent software program and still possess it?
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
1. Tape library database written in Fortran (c 1976) 2. "Windows Explorer" type application for OS1100 in assembler (c 1984) I met a guy some years ago who had a copy of 2 in his box of tricks so I was quite pleased that it still had some application. I lost my copies quite a long time ago; and I'm not sure if there are any OS1100/2200 systems still extant.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
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Purely out of interest, did you use a system that could output to microfiche or were they transferred to it later for archiving?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Both: FR80[^] I was there for 6 months Industrial Training (a few years after the events there) mostly using the Prime 400 and GEC 4070 but with access to the FR80 for graphics hardcopy - both fiche and paper roll.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
