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Old good times... I gues not many of you remember the ancient mainframe machine like that with 4k x 45 bits RAM running as fast as 20000 op/s! That was my first comp with ALGOL-60 and "autocode" (a predecessor of assembler).
Eddie Velasquez wrote:
Tandy 1000: 4.77Mhz 8080
Well, your Tandy was an advanced device! As far as I remember the genuine Intel 8080 was 2 MHz. When they introduced the 8085 @2.5 MHz we said "Wow! It's cool! It's fast!" 
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brownfox wrote:
Well, your Tandy was an advanced device! As far as I remember the genuine Intel 8080 was 2 MHz.
Well, you know... I was braggin'! 
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution - Robert Sewell
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From 4th-6th grade I attended the elementary school that my grandmom taught at, and she was my ride to/from school, so I often was stuck at school for 2-3 hours after classes ended. When I was in 4th grade (or maybe 5th, I forget which) there was an after-school class in the library teaching basic BASIC on Apple //e's. Oh the excitement! Graphics!
Later that year, for open house (a night-time thing where parents came to visit the school and classrooms) I wrote a cheezy little "welcome to open house" program, complete with stick-figure house and opening door.  Hey, by 1981/82's technology standards it was pretty bloody cool
--Mike--
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I think so Brain, but if we shaved our heads, we'd look like weasels!
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yeah, that technology rocked!!!
it's a pity that i was born in '86  assembler in the 80s would have been really funny.
Don't try it, just do it!
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I'm always too late... *CRY*!!!!
Don't try it, just do it!
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hmmmm, never heard of this movie... i have to check if i can get it here in germany.
Don't try it, just do it!
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Yeah I started on one also. Had the "offical" TI Tape Cassette. The voice synthesizer mod package and went through at least 4 sets of game controls. no game like Parsec!!! I was pissed when I found out my parents gave it away.
Cheers,
-Erik
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ah the voice synthesizer. I had it and the tape drive as well. although I wasn't much into programming in those days. my father wrote a frogger clone that ran off of the tape drive.
fond memories.
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With magnetic core memory of course .;P
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Applesoft Basic, 6502/65816 Assembly (Orca/M Assembler), and, eventually when compilers became available, Pascal and C...
...thankfully, my paychecks today more than make up for the dorkiness of a 9 year old in 1984
Kevin Grossnicklaus
SSE
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www.SSEinc.com
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I just could not buy that many games. I remember getting Omega Race with my vic-20
then mail-order a star trek clone on a tape cassette.
Other game existed, but not that many. I ended up having to type most
of the programs (games) from compute! and compute gazette magazines.
Then they would fail to work and I would have to "debug" them. Most of the time,
it was a typing mistake but I felt in control.
This carried on to the era of the commodore 64, of course. Most game came with
article that were the era's equivalent to The Code Project so I
learned a lot from that.
In the process, I have learned english and I have learned how to program.
Ah the memories of the good old days...
All this to say that when I officially started my 1st assembly language
computer science course, on the Apple ][, Our teacher wanted to have us
print "hello world" during a 60 minute lab class. After 30 seconds, I asked my
teacher how I could trap the raster blank interrupt. He told me "Interupts?" then
opened up the cover of the Apple ][ and pointed to some trace on the board, explaining
how the Apple ][ did not deal with interrupts for any of the on board periferials but
I could short this pin and that pin to start an interrupt.
I remember feeling that the commodore 64 architecture was way ahead of the apple ][
and it was.
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I've only coded in PC/Windows 
But I look forward to some development on Linux/Apache/J2EE/Oracle sometime.
Norman Fung
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I don't recall the actual first computer I used - it was some beast made by CDC that occupied a large, sealed room on campus, and was fed with Hollerith cards by monks in white lab coats. The first real, hands-on computer for me was an Altair 8800, and my first real program was its operating system.
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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My first "commericial" programming feat was programming tool path for CNC machine (Computer Numeric Controlled... milling machine) - churning out metal parts
Norman Fung
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I wish I'd had the chance to do some of that. I'd probably have a job today...
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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Or better: Get to design JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) * wishful thinking *
Norman Fung
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I already did a lot of that sort of design...
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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No, but I did have one at one time; the "real" (self-contained) version, not the one that plugged into the ColecoVision. Damn printer died rather quickly and since it housed the power supply, no more Adam!
IIRC, it had a Applesoft-like BASIC. Would not read Apple disc's though (right?).
Peace!
-=- James (Sonork:100.21837)
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My Coleco Adam would only read tapes. The hi-res graphics would be clunky now, but they were very sharp back in the day.
My dad wouldn't buy any games, so I had to learn to program -- I'm thankful now, but wasn't at the time.
Glenn
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Yes, I had 2 Coleco Adam's!
I got it for Christmas when I was about 13.
I had a few games, but really got into SmartBASIC. I thought it was really cool to tell the computer what to do.
My Dad and I wrote a BASIC program that would draw charts/graphs - stuff Excel does in its sleep. The program was huge because I had to code to draw letters on the screen. I looked back at the code a few years later and was embarrased by how simplistic my techniques were. I can be thankful that I got the exposure at such a young age. (Of course 3-year-olds get computer exposure these days!)
Chuck
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Cool! I was 19 when I got mine (back in '84). My first "application" was a football game that randomized each play based on what type of offensive/defensive play you chose from a menu. I would really love to be able to see my code from back then
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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* Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
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Heh, my first one that I did anything on was a VIC-20 (age 8). I later got in a local newspaper (the New York Tribune) for a program that I wrote with two other students in 5th grade (age 10), but that was on a TRS-80 (model III).
Damn... I'm a geek!
Peace!
-=- James (Sonork:100.21837)
[Tip for SUV winter driving survival: "Professional Driver on Closed Course" does not mean "your Dumb Ass on a Public Road"!]
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[Edit: added ages]
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