Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: NonValueAdded; dirtboy

Ours had no disk, just card I/O, but it did have the 128K character core option. The memory cabinet was about the size of a baby elephant, or Rosie O’Donnell on her back.

Wrote my first program on it (”HELLO, WORLD!”) in FORGO during the Camelot era.


58 posted on 10/13/2010 1:28:01 PM PDT by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies ]


To: Erasmus

Let us not forget the dreaded checkstop! I can almost remember the machine language code you would enter on the console in order to put an error message on the user’s printout.


62 posted on 10/13/2010 1:48:45 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson