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#realJSOP wrote: the extended memory cards that required you to plug individual chips into them
I was right at the tail end of that and basically always had 1Meg & 4Meg SIMMS
#realJSOP wrote: Or the math co-processor chips
Yes, for sure.
486sx meant no coprocessor DX had the coprocessor.
And I believe there were coprocessor chips for 386s that you could add, right? But few people had those.
I was building / selling PCs at a small sole proprietor store in 91.
I would call h/w sellers and haggle over buying 1MEG SIMMS for $20 (to be sold at $40).
I remember buying 100MB - 170MB HDDs and thinking customers would never fill them up.
I also remember my first 14,400 modem at the time which I used a couple of times to connect to a local BBS which I didn't even understand. Not long after I was connecting via AOL on the 14.4K modem.
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My first 20mb hard drive cost over $800, and I had to use g=c800:5 in the debugger app to low-level format it. Friends told me it was pointless because I'd never fill it up. My first modem was an AppleCat 300 baud. I don't miss the slow speeds at all. 
I grew to hate Basic when I had my very first computer - an Atari 400.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: I grew to hate Basic
All those freaking line numbers. Sheesh! 
And make sure you leave space (between line numbers) so later when you add code. 
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realJSOP wrote:
I don't miss the slow speeds ate all. Smile |
I hate things that eat my code or my data
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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#realJSOP wrote: I'm so ready for retirement...
me too... (and I am 15-20 years younger than you)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I have the same feeling about all "modern" languages that are essentially C derivatives--whether it's C++, Java, Javascript, Rust, etc.
It's the same old approaches with the same old problems and the same old restrictions and the same gotcha's...just called something different.
Quite frankly, I don't like any of those languages because they miss one essential element: Understandability.
I want to be able to look at a piece of code and "grok" it within a few seconds without having to be an 50 year veteran guru in the language.
But...that's just my opinion.
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Finally...Someone speaks the truth.
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Coming from a C# background, I fell in love with javascript and reac5lr. But yeah, the limitations of react are starting to get to me. But, I've recently discovered solidjs. Hear me out, imagine react done well. Give it a whirl. Components only render once. Signals for state. It looks really interesting.
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I cut my teeth on programming back in the late 70's. I appreciated strongly-type languages, like Pascal, and the regimentation of C++. I never learned to like Basic, and, well, you know how I feel about javascript...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I had the same trajectory, but in the late 90's. Yet, I find typed languages to be dry now. JS is the wild west and once you learn your way around the minefield, its fun, for me at least.
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I'm pretty sure my coworkers were laughing at some potty humour but I wasn't privy to that.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Are you saying you had nothing to go on?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I'm saying I'm tired of feeling like a number two
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Wasn't that Abba's less successful follow-up to "Super Trouper"?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No, It's just a stall.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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den2k88 wrote: coworkers
Is it that some of them were just pretending to laugh, even while being equally un-privy to?
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We went to college together, are roughly the same age and all have a similarly deranged sense of humour. They are coworkers but I can easily call them friends.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Watch out for cow orkers
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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The older one gets, the higher the humor threshold becomes.
If you eliminate finding humor in other's mis-fortune your basically no fun anymore.
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I'll never take someone serious that can't laugh on himself.
Said that... other's (specially if trusted friends) misfortunes can be so damned funny...  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Celebrating little victories by combining some hobbies together
Maybe I'll make a Pip-boy[^]
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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