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I agree.
I am against using prepositions this way!  ))
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Awesome
Joan F Silverston
jsilverston@cox.net
nhswinc.com
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The machine is the enemy! It must be brought to heel and made to do our bidding! 
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If I code, I really code against. You imperial kin will never make us bow to the system! Anarchy! Anarchy in the SysCalls! Anarchy im the UK!
GCS 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yes. It should be against. Like I code against my will when it comes to VB or Java or JavaScript family.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Well with AI coming along, maybe in the future we'll be competing with them.
Jeremy Falcon
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For coding against AI I use the JSOP programming language 
GCS 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The wonderful 6502 and variants were an old haunt; powering many Apple, Commodore, and 84 Vettes.
And some raw bit programming on discretely componented half/full adders.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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At least, that's what I think the old IBM Series/1 was called. It was a small computer, before the days of desktops. In my experience, it was used as the "office computer".
I believe other manufacturers had that same size of system before we figured out networking and desktops.
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PDP (birthplace of C)
VAX
So, Yeah, I was surprised MINI was not there.
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Yep. PDPs, WANG VS (hurray for 8" floppies, COBOL and black on white screens.)
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Ah, the 41C and its "alphanumeric revolution", or the HP-65, which technically was my first "home" computer.
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Not sure how those got missed.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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'Tis all you need.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Back in the day, a TRS-80 and a 300 baud acoustic coupler was
all the power I needed.
(To login to the Cray at work)
73
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Yep! The first program I ever sold was written for a TRS-80 in 1979. And don't forget VectorGraphic, either. 
We all get stupid in groups of 5 or more...
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I wrote some watch faces (mainly because the default font was too small for me) and some simple apps (shopping calculator, scoring board, ...) for the Pebble smart watch. Unfortunately, Pebble has been taken over by Fitbit and they killed the Pebble smart watch.
Enjoy life, this is not a rehearsal !!!
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Besides the already mentioned classic professional systems there are many more:
- Micro controllers (plain devices)
- Classic home computers like Amstrad CPC , Apple I, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair
- Programmable calculators (Casio, HP, TI)
Just have a look at List of computers running CP/M - Wikipedia[^] to know how many systems there was once in the classic home and professional area.
I have coded for at least one of each category.
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As below -- mini-computers, particularly from DEC.
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You missed much of the legacy computing devices.
I have coded for various minicomputers, including Digital Equipment Corp's PDP-8, LINC-8 and PDP-11; a Data General clone - the DCC-116; various Hewlett Packard mini's; Tandem-16; Sun Microsystems SPARC; and the AT&T Unix PC7300.
OK, you young whippersnappers - how many of these machines do you recognize?
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
modified 27-Nov-17 15:33pm.
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I recognize many of the names. When I started my first programming job (at DEC, circa 1987), each dev was given one of these[^] babies, along with a full developer doc set that covered 2 bookshelves of a cubicle wall.
/ravi
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Basically, all my schooling was on DEC -- I'm from the Boston area after all.
PDP-11 with RSTS-E in high school, and VAXen in college. Then Alphas until about 2002, since when I have used OpenVMS only as a hobbyist -- to keep from totally rusting.
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Oh, and I had to manage a Stratus System 2000 running VOS for a short time in the early 90s -- it was particularly nasty.
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IBM-4370 ... yes I am a grey beard... 
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IBM 360, IBM 370
(I'm not that old; I was corrupted at an early age. )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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