To: WilliamofCarmichael
I first learned how to program on one of these babies:
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Zx81-timex-manipulated.jpg)
I then saved up to buy the 16K memory expansion module. Yeaaaah!
![](http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ts1000.JPG)
22 posted on
04/11/2015 11:46:24 AM PDT by
COBOL2Java
("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
To: COBOL2Java
28 posted on
04/11/2015 11:53:28 AM PDT by
Engraved-on-His-hands
(Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
To: COBOL2Java
40 posted on
04/11/2015 12:05:52 PM PDT by
GeronL
(CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
To: COBOL2Java
![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR50E3tm8i3DTl8jkk3f9H84E8BgmsVr-UGoi6KDF-JfwxTREaIow)
You had to write to the printer one line at a time from a specific memory location. No I-O routines. But it was an improvement over those primitive first generation mainframes.
Just imagine what another fifty years will do.
And I was just thinking how an Internet application can consist of code from multitudinous sources.. one day perhaps even including the human brain. Can't wait for that. We think we got problems today. . . .
62 posted on
04/11/2015 12:26:58 PM PDT by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: COBOL2Java
They used to sell those as a build it yourself machine.
Mine is still up in the attic somewhere.
78 posted on
04/11/2015 12:49:24 PM PDT by
mowowie
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