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Your first "Killer APP" (vanity)
Posted on 04/13/2005 9:18:26 PM PDT by gilor
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What was your first killer app or game?
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posted on
04/13/2005 9:18:26 PM PDT
by
gilor
To: gilor
word processing.
It's also the app that tought me to save my work frequently.
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posted on
04/13/2005 9:20:00 PM PDT
by
flashbunny
(Any discussion involving cats apparently requires the abandonment of logic by cat lovers.)
To: gilor
App = Xtree
Game = Wolfenstein
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posted on
04/13/2005 9:20:47 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They need changing often, and for the same reason!)
To: gilor
Early stuff? I go back to 1966: the IBM 1401, with 16 KB of memory, tape drives, chain-driven printers (that we could program to make music of a sort), writing out programs (in Autocode) on large sheets of paper before typing out each line on a punch card machine.
The "killer app" back then was just being able to do number-crunching/statistics.
To: gilor
Two productivity programs:
"Letter Perfect" by LJK Enterprises (for the Atari 800) [an early word processor]
"Publishing Partner" by Softlogik Publishing Corporation (for the Atari ST) [Now called PageStream and it is a desktop publishing program for the Mac, ST, Amiga, and Windows]
To: gilor
word processing; wirting my first pc based resume in mid 80s on a wang2000.
To: LibFreeOrDie
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Yep, I belong in a computer museum!
To: gilor
Zork on the Apple IIc...
To: All
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posted on
04/13/2005 9:51:18 PM PDT
by
gilor
(Pull the wool over your own eyes!)
To: LibFreeOrDie
Our chain printer made a chunk-chunk-chunk-chunk sound.
But it had a sign on it saying something like:
Before calling service, connect the red wire between pins 12 and 14 (and then hide this sign!)
When you connected this wire, it made a chunk-chunk-
silent-chunk-chunk-
silent-... sound, skipping every third beat.
We had bought the cheap model, which could only print at 2/3 speed. It differed from the expensive model in that it had a wire shorting out one of the three cycles.
Another memory - the cold boot card, with half of all the holes punched, in some seeming random pattern that made perfect sense, if you knew the machine language.
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posted on
04/13/2005 10:41:24 PM PDT
by
ThePythonicCow
(To err is human; to moo is bovine)
To: gilor
"the early stuff (ATARI 800XL..."
1982-1985 early? ;')
First killer app... hmm... never been much of a player of computer games, so it would be a free demo disk I got in the mail (dunno why) for a copy-protected word processor, Zardax, which ran on the Apple II (under DOS 3.3, the kind from Apple, not MS). Thinking back on the interface, I still kinda like it, for a menu style.
Jack Tramiel:
http://www.commodore.ca/history/people/1989_you_dont_know_jack.htm
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04/13/2005 11:07:56 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: gilor
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04/13/2005 11:09:27 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
To: Swordmaker; HAL9000
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04/13/2005 11:11:50 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
To: gilor
Killer App? PaperClip for the Commodore 64 with the required dongle. That was when my mother decided that she needed a computer. It was then that I figured these home computers would really take off.
Killer game? SuperTaxMan (sorry, had to toss in a Hal Labs reference...) I'd have to say M.U.L.E., though my wife was really into Sword of Fargol (followed by Mail Order Monsters.)
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posted on
04/13/2005 11:15:19 PM PDT
by
kingu
(What is union scale wage for staging a protest anyway?)
To: gilor
Wumpus....using paper tape on a teletype machine....
Yes, I'm old....
To: gilor
I also used to program LOTS of things with assembly language on a Z80 processor.
My first "personal" computer was a TRS-80 Model 1 Level II with a cassette tape interface.
To: politicket
Wumpus....using paper tape on a teletype machine.... Yes, I'm old....Yep- model 19 typing reperferators... sometimes you could read the bloody yellow tapes...
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04/14/2005 1:35:18 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Undocumented Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: ConservativeMind; SunkenCiv
"Publishing Partner" by Softlogik Publishing Corporation (for the Atari ST) [Now called PageStream and it is a desktop publishing program for the Mac, ST, Amiga, and Windows] I still use Pagestream on my Mac (has to run in Classic mode, but I have already paid for my OSX upgrade) on a daily basis. It blows many of the professional Desktop Publishing packages out of the water!
My first killer app was on the Commodore 64 - SpeedScript, a great text based word processor.
To: gilor
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04/14/2005 2:03:08 AM PDT
by
bad company
(fish tremble at the mention of my name)
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