Your first experience with a PC! ..or any computer!
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You've heard the phrase "Car boot sale" before? You might call a boot a trunk. It would be wrong of course since we long moved on from strapping trunks to the back of cars[^] ;)
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:
You've heard the phrase "Car boot sale" before?
No.
Paul Watson wrote:
You might call a boot a trunk.
Ah, ok.
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You've heard the phrase "Car boot sale" before? You might call a boot a trunk. It would be wrong of course since we long moved on from strapping trunks to the back of cars[^] ;)
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.
They're a lot more trunk-like than boot-like.
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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:
playing the snake game that came with DOS
Twittlefingers level was pretty intense. :) Another good game that comes to mind was the gorilla.bas. 2 gorillas standing on sky scrapers, you input the velocity and angle, and bam, chuck a banana at the other gorilla and try to take him out.
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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 :)
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That's exactly how I got started, only with my BASIC cartridge on an Atari 800. My mom knew the arcane commands needed to load Frogger from a cassette into memory but I found out that typing my math homework into the prompt gave me all the answers in record time. Less time doing homework and more time playing video games!
Please don't bother me... I'm hacking right now. Don't look at me like that - doesn't anybody remember what "hacking" really means? :sigh:
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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[^]
That must have been some awesome display back then. I dreamed about (300,300), oh the kilopixels. :omg:
This blanket smells like ham
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They're a lot more trunk-like than boot-like.
Not in SA they aren't. Down there, all cars are sold with bare frame exposed in the area you and i might expect to see a trunk installed. So the natives, resourceful folk that they are, patch up a sort of storage cocoon out of old boot leather and lion sinew. It doesn't exactly resemble a boot, but it looks more like a boot than a trunk or a lion, and so the name sticks. ;)
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That must have been some awesome display back then. I dreamed about (300,300), oh the kilopixels. :omg:
This blanket smells like ham
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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[^]
The first machine I used was my Dad's Apple /// - an 8 bit machine with a green screen 5 1/4" floppy drive and 256k of banked memory. Out of the box you could only program it in BASIC, although I believe the machine was Pascal based. After a while my Dad bought a Z80 co-processor card running CP/M 2.2 which was when I really started learning. Assembler, Pascal and C followed shortly afterwards, with more than a little reverse engineering and BDOS/BIOS hooking along the way. :cool:
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