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  • N NormDroid

    Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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    glenn horton freemanco com
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    FORTRAN IV, in the 4th form at a private school in Delaware, where we students who were taking the class were granted hands-on, unsupervised access, punching our cards, loading compilers, AFIT subroutines, etc... in an air-conditioned room in the basement of the main building. The best lesson was discovering that the world didn't end when I made the machine crash (the first time was an accident, honest!), and then demonstrated that fact to my friends. Repeatedly - that flashing red button was pretty cool! (and nobody outside the room was the wiser). That empowering discovery (crash, restart) transformed the great and powerful OZ (aka IBM 360) into a simple man behind the curtain ("pay no attention..."), and ever since, no machine has ever intimidated me. Except that one portable kitchen mixer I couldn't put back together, after I opened the case and this little spring flew out...

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    • M Mike Hankey

      Apple 2e + ProDOS + assembler

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      Scorpion Rojo
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      Mine was GW-Basic... :laugh:

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        Z80 assembly, in .. 2003?

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        z80 assembly back on the TI-85 back in 93-94'. Then on to x86 assembly, turbo pascal and turbo c.

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        • N NormDroid

          Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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          dogdays
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          TAPS, Three Address Programming System, for an IBM 650. 1961. The IBM 650 was a drum machine with 2,000 word capacity. The third address was the address of the next instruction, one had to be concerned with the length of time of the current instruction took to execute so you would not waste a complete revolution.

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          • N NormDroid

            Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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            snowman53
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            IBM Assembly in the late 60's. Followed by Fortran - compared to assembly I thought it was easy. Apple Basic in '79 - I thought the immediate results was magic compared to waiting a day or two to run a Fortran program on a mainframe. I also custom hacked the Basic Assembly Code which Apple loaded from a ROM into RAM.

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            • S Scorpion Rojo

              Mine was GW-Basic... :laugh:

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              Mike Hankey
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              I've used a couple of variations of basic mainly back when I was using HPs to control test equipment. Other than that tried to stay away from it. My last job I used an old version of Visual Basic and it had progressed quite a bit but like the C based languages a lot better. C/C++/C#

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              • L leppie

                I also recall at some stage, I think a year or so later, I got a ZX spectrum or 80 (the small one). It was highly entertaining when I manage to change the text from 'STOP THE TAPE' to STOP THE SHlT' to display on the TV. Provided endless laughs for me and my sister till we somehow broke it 2 months later. Needless to say, my dad did not think it was good thing for us to touch computing devices. Then many years later after university, I rediscovered my lost love :)

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                Rob Ford 2
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                Fortran II on an IBM 1130 in 1965. Ran finite element programs on a 64Kb core and 1Mb hard drive. Programs on punched cards.

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                • N NormDroid

                  Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                  nipsonanomimata
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                  turbo pascal 5.5

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                  • N NormDroid

                    Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                    Jasmine2501
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                    My first programming language was BASIC on a VIC-20 in 1980, followed by a similar BASIC on the Apple II and 6502 assembly language on both. I learned programming by porting games from one system to the other. And, remember how software used to be sold? As a code listing in a book, and you typed in the code yourself? I learned programming from that - mostly by re-writing games so I could cheat :) Somewhere around here I still have the code listing from "World Power" - if you remember that.

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                    • N NormDroid

                      Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                      RafagaX
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                      Logo, I remember the fun i had moving that turtle and creating geometric figures. :)

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                      • N NormDroid

                        Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                        Mike Ellison
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                        Basic, on a TRS-80 Model 1... complete with tape cassette storage

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                        • N NormDroid

                          Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                          SBJ
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                          COBOL/Punch Cards - 1979 UCSD Pacal - 1980(?) - Heathkit H11

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                          • N NormDroid

                            Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                            TRS-80 Model 1 Level 1 BASIC.. Was about 5-6 years old when I inherited it from my dad. 4K memory and a cassette drive. 10 INPUT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME? ";A$ 20 PRINT "HELLO ";A$;"..." 30 END At that age, making the computer do the magic stuff really blew my mind.

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                            • N NormDroid

                              Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                              RASPeter
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                              Basic on a TRS-80 Model 3, around 1987. I also had an Atari 600XL, but the programming manual that came with it was a bit more advanced than Tandy's.

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                              • M Mike Hankey

                                I've used a couple of variations of basic mainly back when I was using HPs to control test equipment. Other than that tried to stay away from it. My last job I used an old version of Visual Basic and it had progressed quite a bit but like the C based languages a lot better. C/C++/C#

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                                Scorpion Rojo
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                                Well I definitely like C based languages a lot more than VB, but, what can I tell you?, that was the first time I make a touch a source code.

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                                • N NormDroid

                                  Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                                  Andrew Monteiro
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                                  Applesoft Basic (think that's what it was called), in 1979 on an Apple ][+ Not long after it was 6502 assembly on a VIC20 and the Apple ][+

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                                  • N NormDroid

                                    Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                                    sandyson
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                                    Basic and the closely similar Focal on a PDP-8/I (1970 age 15). The DEC machine was available to us via teletype for 8 hours a day from a nearby community college. No online storage - offline was 7-bit punch tape. Later, Basic on a Spectra 70 and Fortran on the IBM 360 (1972).

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                                    • R Rob Ford 2

                                      Fortran II on an IBM 1130 in 1965. Ran finite element programs on a 64Kb core and 1Mb hard drive. Programs on punched cards.

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                                      Brian G Wheatley
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                                      Dang, Rob beat me to it! Autocoder on an IBM 1440 in 1967.

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                                      • N NormDroid

                                        Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                                        DUsikov1
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                                        Started in 1968, the sequence: ALGOL,FORTRAN,ASSEMBLER,BASIC,PROLOG,PYTHON,C,C++, Last 12 years C++. Now I am trying to program in Natural Language (developping parser for it, etc. Daniel

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                                          Mine was McDonnell Douglas Basic + Assembler + Proc (Eq Java) + English (SQL) and Assembler. What was yours?

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                                          Hank Hodgin
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                                          DEC Basic on a PDP 11-20 in 1974

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