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I loved programming machine language by flipping the switches on the front - writing actual code is for sissies. /Just Kidding


5 posted on 07/27/2011 8:50:01 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Welcome to the USA - where every day is Backwards Day!)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
I loved programming machine language by flipping the switches on the front - writing actual code is for sissies. /Just Kidding

When I started coding, we had to code in 0s and 1s, and sometimes we didn't even have the 1s.

9 posted on 07/27/2011 8:51:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
I loved programming machine language by flipping the switches on the front - writing actual code is for sissies. /Just Kidding

My brother had an Altair 8800 for a while, and that's what he used to do.

34 posted on 07/27/2011 10:26:55 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

First computer I ever used was the Imsai 8080 in 1976. With those red and blue switches. What fun.


53 posted on 07/27/2011 1:49:19 PM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
I loved programming machine language by flipping the switches on the front - writing actual code is for sissies.

You had switches? We would have killed for switches! We had to program with test leads jumpered between sockets, using coat hangers or bodily appendages when we ran out of leads. Softy!

54 posted on 07/27/2011 3:43:48 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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