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Re: school Alexander M.,6-Feb-04 9:57 Alexander M., 6-Feb-04 9:57  österreich hat so ziemlich jeden krieg verloren den es je geführt hat.. politisch hatte es auch noch nie was großes mitzureden(und heute abolut gar nix). haste ICQ oder ähnliches, dann können wir gerne noch ne runde labern Don't try it, just do it! Re: school Hauptman(n)6-Feb-04 21:21 Hauptman(n) 6-Feb-04 21:21  hmm, ok im Geschichte Unterricht bei uns geht nicht immer so hervor, wer der Sieger eines Kriegs ist meine ICQ Nummer ist übrigens 161666414 scio me nihil scire Its incurable, its a Pentium division failure. Re: school vertigo_one11-Feb-04 9:34 vertigo_one 11-Feb-04 9:34  Programming Skills depend 99.9999% of yourself, neither I had programming classes at school and the teachers at university just suck. I love this and all what I know about programming I learnt it by myself, 'wasting' hours in front of the pc, buying and reading books, internet, etc. etc. Real Programmer is not who knows how to work with a programming tool, Real Programmer is who knows how to write cool stuff in any programming language, 'cuz he/she/(it!!?) thinks like a machine B). Atari 2600 + Spectravideo Compumate MattyT4-Feb-04 20:40 MattyT 4-Feb-04 20:40  Am I the only one in the world that used this baby to begin their programming career?? Whenever I mention the "Spectravideo" to colleagues they shrug their shoulders... It was an add-on for the Atari 2600 that plugged in via the cartridge and joystick ports gave the VCS a membrane keyboard. With it you could create graphics (40x40 pixels, 2 colours!!), music and, most important to me, code in a very simple BASIC. It was a great little device and a delight for a child with an interest in these fascintating things called 'computers'... Check out this link and this one too. Aah the memories... Re: Atari 2600 + Spectravideo Compumate Krissh5-Feb-04 19:46 Krissh 5-Feb-04 19:46  Spectravideo -86 Comodore 64 -87 Amiga 500 -91 8086/8886 -92 PC multi -> -92 -04 Centrino laptop -04 18 years that changed my life Gupta Team Developer 3.0 VC++ 2003 Oracle 8i W2K-XP Re: Atari 2600 + Spectravideo Compumate LasseJ5-Feb-04 22:33 LasseJ 5-Feb-04 22:33  Almost equal "CV": Spectravideo SV-328 12/84: Had the best MS product ever - MS Basic Commodore C128 7/86: Disk drive really sucked (1570) Atari Mega ST2 x/87: 386 33MHz PC 01/91: First with green hercules display, at the end of '92 it got it's first linux inside! Thereafter various PC-incarnations Nowdays I have in my classics collection: Atari 520STFM, Atari 1024ST, 2 x Amiga 500 and a Apple Macintosh 512. All "infamous" Motorola 68k machines! Interesting that more than 70% of us Roger Wright4-Feb-04 14:50 Roger Wright 4-Feb-04 14:50  started as children! It really is true that what we pick up as kids tends to stick with us as adults, but I had no idea how strongly. That, to me, is all the more reason we need to stress the sciences early in order to ensure that we can continue to produce competent technical people in the future. Emphasizing PE and social studies over math and physics just guarantees us of a large segment of society that is incompetent to deal with a technical society, and ensures that technical jobs in the next generation will go unfilled. It's great to see our young members doing their part to help prevent that unpleasant outcome! Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl - you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true... Re: Interesting that more than 70% of us Alexander M.,5-Feb-04 5:55 Alexander M., 5-Feb-04 5:55  You are sooo right!!! In Germany I often realize that many people are kinda "in fear" of high-tech products. They are getting more and more hostile towards new technologie, I think mainly because they are not able to understand how it works and that there is no danger and so they are stopping high-tech projects because there are many people protesting against things they don't know anything about... And I think there is a similar situation in the United States and in many other western states. I hope the way people are thinking about that will change in the future, or we will get big problems because our states earn their money by producing technologie... Don't try it, just do it! Re: Interesting that more than 70% of us peterchen5-Feb-04 11:24 peterchen 5-Feb-04 11:24  It's simply a Prophet-Mountain relationship, the age they meet just depends on their speed and general orientation. And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind . mlog || Agile Programming | doxygen Re: Interesting that more than 70% of us Hauptman(n)6-Feb-04 6:30 Hauptman(n) 6-Feb-04 6:30  yeah I think the the people can't understand these technic. So they have fear about it, because they can't fathom it. scio me nihil scire My OpenSource(zlib/libpng License) Engine: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rendertech Its incurable, its a Pentium division failure. Do you remember the ZX81? ManiB4-Feb-04 10:08 ManiB 4-Feb-04 10:08  Hi, my very first experience in programming was the basic on an ZX81! Do you remember? I found the very interesting site: http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/contents.htm Have a look and much fun... Manfred Becker (ManiB) Re: Do you remember the ZX81? Anonymous4-Feb-04 10:45 Anonymous 4-Feb-04 10:45  Yep. I bought the kit and built mine. Had to balance a carton of frozen milk against the 16K memory module to stop it overheating. Them were the days Re: Frozen milk conrad Braam5-Feb-04 18:47 conrad Braam 5-Feb-04 18:47  I never tried that, strangely the damn RAM pack never blew up, I actually got hooked on grandad's C64, but I only had the ZX81 at home. Keyboard gave in way too soon though. Conrad - conradb@adroit.co.za Always do badly to start off, that way when you get the hang of it suddenly, everyone is surprised. Re: Do you remember the ZX81? Member 69538411-Feb-04 8:15 Member 695384 11-Feb-04 8:15  I start computing when I saw for the first time a ZX80! ... Re: Do you remember the ZX81? chrboult5-Feb-04 4:23 chrboult 5-Feb-04 4:23  WOW ! That's the first computer i ever saw. I remember watching my father assembling it. I learned basic on it... 1981 geesh that means I learned at the age of 8 .... Chris. Re: Do you remember the ZX81? agarcian5-Feb-04 10:20 agarcian 5-Feb-04 10:20  I remember too the ZX81. That was a big word that I learned from my father and that I used with my friends. Yeah! I am going to play with the Sinclair ZX81. Anyway. I also remember him loading the games and the programs we did from a tape. It was cool. Re: Do you remember the ZX81? CSharpDavid6-Feb-04 6:19 CSharpDavid 6-Feb-04 6:19  I had an add on board that allowed me to change the character set. I remember getting on the train from Doncaster to Sheffield in the snow to pick up a 16K rampack @ WHSmith , it was the only place that had on in stock. Remember making the 1st line a rem and then poking bytes into the line to write machine code ? .netter TRS80 Colour computer Member 964-Feb-04 9:47 Member 96 4-Feb-04 9:47  Good old Radio Shack! Bought their assembly language cartridge and wrote a space invaders clone that you could control through voice input on the cassette port. In high school they had Commodore Super Pet's with CPM operating system. SPCA--we're here to inquire about the health of Dr. Schroedinger's cat<br /> Re: TRS80 Colour computer Andy Brummer5-Feb-04 5:33 Andy Brummer 5-Feb-04 5:33  I started with the CoCo as well. My first had 16k and later on I moved up to 64k. I remember it was the coolest thing when I found out how to get those extra false color video modes enabled, but my happiest day was when I got actual floppy disk drives and could move off of cassette tapes. Re: TRS80 Colour computer Anonymous5-Feb-04 11:17 Anonymous 5-Feb-04 11:17  The play button on the cassette player was broken on my TRS-80. You had to sit there and hold down the play button. Got painful on long loading programs! Re: TRS80 Colour computer Nick Jacobs6-Feb-04 7:52 Nick Jacobs 6-Feb-04 7:52  Wow, they had color trash-80s? I only got to work on a b&w version. Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest..... QBasic isn't a text editor hxxbin4-Feb-04 5:50 hxxbin 4-Feb-04 5:50  The first time that I ran Qbasic, I thought it was a text editor, and surprise, it isn't, then I read for weeks the online help, and I learn by myself. I remember that alert "Syntaxis Error", I didn't know what does mean syntaxis . ---- hxxbin Re: QBasic isn't a text editor Alexander M.,4-Feb-04 8:06 Alexander M., 4-Feb-04 8:06  lool... nice story Don't try it, just do it! Re: QBasic isn't a text editor hxxbin6-Feb-04 3:50 hxxbin 6-Feb-04 3:50  Thanks ---- hxxbin Re: Syntaxis and IP conrad Braam5-Feb-04 18:54 conrad Braam 5-Feb-04 18:54  sin tax is what U get when you do something bad. I remember learning Pascal with an ancient Borland compiler version 2 or 3, which we learned to love. There was no mouse menus in those days, the other thing it gave us was a PC when it crashed your app. Latter we discovered that PC did not mean XT or AT, it actually was a program counter or IP, a kind of primitive debugger line number. Conrad - conradb@adroit.co.za Always do badly to start off, that way when you get the hang of it suddenly, everyone is surprised.

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