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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
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mlog || Agile Programming | doxygen
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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.
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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)
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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
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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.
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I start computing when I saw for the first time a ZX80!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 />
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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.
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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!
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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.....
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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 .
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hxxbin
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lool... nice story
Don't try it, just do it!
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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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We got an (old) PDP 11 in our lab at school and I was real programmer then: I managed to toggle in the boot loader with the front panel dip switches from memory (well almost...)
bb |~ bb
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Yes, I remember way back when I got my first computer...
It was an AMD 2600, that was way back in 2003, but it seems just like yesterday
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kewl
my father bought our first pc when i was 6.
(now i have my own machines)
Don't try it, just do it!
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Dude!! That was YESTERDAY!
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I started when I was 10 or 11 years old, with SuperLogo and Basic (a good old CBM 3032, still have it), but I used SuperLogo more ([b]much[/b] more).
I heard that C++ had more possibilities for me, cuz I began to find the limits of freedom of SuperLogo (speed and I/O) and they were disturbing me. So I started to learn C++, but I had no compiler. So I downloaded Digital Mars C++, but I wasn't very familiar with DOS-compilers. Small problem. Fixed just this year: I got VC++ 6 now.
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I learned HTML with 11 or 12 some days after I got my first computer (Pentium 120). But I am only 17 (nearly 18) years old, so thats not so far away. I do c++ only for 4 years ... and have no job
Goodbye and thanks for the fish!
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I started playing at about 7, with a cartridge atari, playing games with the joysticks and paddles, then begged for a 48k zx speccy rubber keyed. Think i spent the next 2/3 years typing in programs from the mags you could buy, and a mag called INPUT, that would show listings for various machines to program in. From then I collected various spectrums, ie. 128k +2, 128k +3, then baught an Electron and a commordore 64. Then I saw an advert for a Sam Coupe (sort of in between a spectrum and an Amiga), but the company 'Miles Gordon Technolodgy' when bust after about 2 years sadly, I think it was a great little machine with loads of potential, and it got me into writing assembler. Then I baught an Amiga500, then an Amiga500+ and an Atari500, stayed with them for a couple of years, and then baught my first PC, a Packard Bell 25Mhz 2Mb ram Executive PC! lol. Never looked back since. But I do enjoy playing with the emulators for the speccy now and again
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I would say that those of us who grew up alongside 8-bit computers were very fortunate to have the oportunity to learn so much stuff at the nuts&bolts level. (I am now an embedded systems programmer by trade using a 32-Bit TriCore DSP for most work, but playing with 8-bit micros when I was a kid in the 80's taught me things I still use every day).
To have a computer that booted in 1/2sec straight into a BASIC interpreter was very cool. To be able to take the lid off and have a chanse of understanding it is something you just don't get today. Compare our "toybox" to the computing world available to kids wanting to learn the important low-level stuff today - they're abstracted from the hardware, the processor and memory quite a long way.
For this reason I've kept all my old 8-bit computers (C16, Electron etc.) just incase my kids (if and when!) show some inclination towards computer programming.
Sam W.
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