Memories !!
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wow! This is the language I learned to program computers in school eons ago. Time flies.
69 posted on
05/01/2004 1:43:57 PM PDT by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I remember my first computer, an HP110, with the battery-powered disk drive and battery powered Think Jet printer.
76 posted on
05/01/2004 2:41:18 PM PDT by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Lots of good memories back in those days. I remember writing 1401 machine code and having it linked as overlay since core storage was only 8K. Then a great thing happened we got a 1410/7010. 100K big deal! Don't tell me I'm old, please, don't tell me. PCP wasn't even a glimmer in IBM's eye yet.
77 posted on
05/01/2004 2:59:43 PM PDT by
duckman
(I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
To: Mitchell
I guess I should be ashamed to admit it
but I love BASIC.
Visual Basic still is the fastest way
to get a program running quickly
and there is a lot to be said for that.
84 posted on
05/01/2004 5:05:39 PM PDT by
Allan
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yes, the memories.
I learned FORTRAN (which is basically BASIC) in the mid to late-1960's on an IBM 360. Later, on my first job, I did some programing with FORTRAN (mainly repetitive iteration calculations). The company did not even have a computer. We ran programs by phone on a timesharing arangement overnight. Got pages of printouts the next day.
Before long we got a Wang computer -- 8K of memory, no harddrive, and a screen that was about 8" or 9" diagonal. The programs were recorded on cassette tapes. Plain old cassettes. Then the speed of change increased. I ended up learning the variations of FORTRAN that included various BASIC, QUICKBASIC and others -- on smaller but ever more powerful computers. I skipped VISUALBASIC and went directly to webpage language.
The last programs I wrote with some form of BASIC were about 5 or 6 years ago. Structural analysis of hazardous material liquid trailers. It still works and they are using it daily.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
One thing I must admit surprises me in retrospect is how much better certain things like cassette tape data formats could have been engineered. It might be fun to try to see how much better I could do things today (for use with the old hardware), though I'm not sure what the point would be.
98 posted on
05/01/2004 10:19:20 PM PDT by
supercat
(Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Boy does this thread bring back some memories. Happy Birthday BASIC!
99 posted on
05/01/2004 10:21:13 PM PDT by
mafree
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Happy Birthday BASIC! Wow, you're OLD. Of course, so am I. :)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
10 PRINT "FLIP FLOP"
20 GOTO 10
119 posted on
05/04/2004 7:23:31 PM PDT by
rintense
(Now I know why liberals hate guns... they keep shooting themselves in the foot!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Oh, my! I remember using BASIC on an Apple IIe with a breadboard to make an automatic board tester!
128 posted on
05/05/2004 1:30:40 PM PDT by
Redleg Duke
(Stir the pot...don't let anything settle to the bottom where the lawyers can feed off of it!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
placemarker
130 posted on
05/05/2004 1:40:19 PM PDT by
js1138
(In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
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