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[^]
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."
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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 ever decent piece of software I wrote is what I called CaseBrowser. It is a software to be used by the legal fraternity to store and search legal cases. I developed it using VB5 and MS-Access. I still have the source code with me and cherish it. :-)
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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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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 .
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
I could also install COBOL and maybe Fortran :-D .
You're a sick man... :laugh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
I could also install COBOL and maybe Fortran :-D .
You're a sick man... :laugh:
Will Rogers never met me.
Well, then I guess won't try to get to Laughlin any time soon... :-D
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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:
delete this;Good project. What language did you use to write the program? Did you keep a machine so that you can enjoy running the program from time to time, just to appreciate the good work you did so many years ago? The problem with my old programs is I can't find a machine to run them any more. Some of them used assembly languages, and/or direct hardware access. They don't run well on modern operating systems.
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Good project. What language did you use to write the program? Did you keep a machine so that you can enjoy running the program from time to time, just to appreciate the good work you did so many years ago? The problem with my old programs is I can't find a machine to run them any more. Some of them used assembly languages, and/or direct hardware access. They don't run well on modern operating systems.
The app was written in PL/I[^]-80, a subset of the PL/I programming language designed for 8080/8085/Z-80 microprocessors. The machines ran CP/M[^]. Since they were university property (this was a school project), and cost well over $10,000 apiece, I didn't get to keep one.
Software Zen:
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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.
Roger Wright wrote:
bugs ate the paper tape
That is funny on so many levels.
Software Zen:
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Roger Wright wrote:
bugs ate the paper tape
That is funny on so many levels.
Software Zen:
delete this;Perhaps I should have written, "insects..." :-O
Will Rogers never met me.
