Posted on 08/17/2016 10:29:43 AM PDT by zeugma
Are you talking about punch cards like on an IBM 360 using the Hollerith code, or are you talking even older school like back in my telecom career with punch tapes and the Baudot code used in transmitter distributors for teletype operations?
Old-time ping! :)
I’ll read this just before bedtime to help me sleep.
J/k
I started with a Commodore 64.
That directory listing at the end looks like *nix, not DOS. “ls -FAC”, I believe.
I wrote a few low level hardware programs using debug, mostly for I/O interfaces. Remember Borland Turbo Assembler?
Those were the days!
We used to ‘joke’ about a ‘gigabyte of EXPANDED MEMORY and a One Gigabyte Hard Drive as being the ultimate machine!
Windows was a ‘novel’ concept, Version 3.1.
DOS was where the REAL computer guys worked!
I even had some experience with a precursor to MS-DOS, called CP/M......................
Been there did that. A good era, much enjoyed, with good riddance.
Spent much time perusing the BIOS source code for graphics calls. If I wanted a game, I wrote it.
beep.com was awesome !!
No, he’s talking about MAGAZINES, like Computer Shopper and PC Magazine!..................
“In some of these periodicals, you’d sometimes have little programs printed that you could, if you were careful and didn’t make any mistakes, enter into an editor on your computer, save, compile and execute”
LOL! Yes!
Astronomy Magazine used to print out programs in BASIC like that every month. I did one in QBASIC that was an orbital simulator that took forever to do, and the debugging was just as long because there was always some command that didnt work with what you were programming with, but to run that and watch it go after you fixed it? That was art right there.
My ‘first’ was a Timex-Sinclair TS-1000!...................with 16k memory extension module!...............
Dont forget Compute!, MacUser, PC Computing, and Byte.
So many great titles back then.
I found a bug in BEEP.COM.
Beeps were actually a series of clicks that you could program to make wierd sounds.
Some of us worked in VAX/VMS, MVS, and JCL ... but that was on big(ger) iron.
I used to read Computer Shopper cover to cover!
It was as thick as a phonebook!................
I used turbo c for quite a while.
I guess I shoulda took a clue when the dweeb mentioned “DOS”......warn’t no “DOS” when I started.
Sheet, I thought we wuz talking old timer crap here. I remember sending and receiving emails over a Model 204 to someone in Arizona in 1989.... DOS my patootie....
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