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27 May 2014, 1:37 pm
TallyMan wrote:
Anyone remember that Star Trek film where they go into the past to get a whale. At one point they are in an aluminium factory and Scotty goes to an old PC and starts talking to it "Computer, ..." and is baffled why it doesn't respond.
my fave of all the movie series
27 May 2014, 4:18 pm
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27 May 2014, 6:05 pm
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27 May 2014, 7:40 pm
28 May 2014, 3:25 am
ASPartOfMe wrote:
I don't remember the last time I used a PRINT statement to display something. I do remember I thought it was so cool when I wrote a program and something actually printed out.
I always thought green screens ware ugly.
I always thought green screens ware ugly.
I was pleased when the amber screens came out - now they were real classy!
28 May 2014, 4:00 am
28 May 2014, 4:23 am
eric76 wrote:
KB8CWB wrote:
Back in the day I learned how to program using key punches. Then feeding program into the card reader. If it happened to be humid or the reader was being a prick, it would eat some and jam. Then you had to reassemble the cards in order, identify the damaged ones. Then wait in line to use the keypunch, then again in line back at the card reader. Then you hoped the line printer was having a good day. 
I've done some programming on a Data General Supernova. It was all in the Assembly Language used by Data General.
First, you wrote the program and used the key punch machine to make the cards.
You would then go to another Data General machine and read the cards to compile the program and output that to a paper tape. It would also produce a listing of the program on fan-fold paper.
After that, you would turn the Supernova on and load the bootstrap program with toggle switches.
You would then mount the paper tape on the paper tape reader and toggle the "Run" switch.
The Supernova would then read the paper tape and execute the program contained on it.
I still have a copy of the listing and paper tape from a program for the Supernova sitting in a box somewhere.
what language are you talking here?
28 May 2014, 4:47 pm
khaoz wrote:
eric76 wrote:
KB8CWB wrote:
Back in the day I learned how to program using key punches. Then feeding program into the card reader. If it happened to be humid or the reader was being a prick, it would eat some and jam. Then you had to reassemble the cards in order, identify the damaged ones. Then wait in line to use the keypunch, then again in line back at the card reader. Then you hoped the line printer was having a good day.
I've done some programming on a Data General Supernova. It was all in the Assembly Language used by Data General.
First, you wrote the program and used the key punch machine to make the cards.
You would then go to another Data General machine and read the cards to compile the program and output that to a paper tape. It would also produce a listing of the program on fan-fold paper.
After that, you would turn the Supernova on and load the bootstrap program with toggle switches.
You would then mount the paper tape on the paper tape reader and toggle the "Run" switch.
The Supernova would then read the paper tape and execute the program contained on it.
I still have a copy of the listing and paper tape from a program for the Supernova sitting in a box somewhere.
what language are you talking here?
It was an interesting Assembly Language that had a feater I never saw in anything else. They had a limited number of autoincrement and autodecrement memory locations. Every time you referenced the location, it would increment or decrement the contents depending on the location. This was quite useful for things like moving strings because you would just load the addresses into two autoincrement locations and use them as the source and destination addresses.
30 May 2014, 2:20 pm
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30 May 2014, 3:16 pm
^^^
hiya Scott welcome to the club 
I remember DOS. it seemed a stable OS to me, I never had it crash. only when windows came around did crashes/blue screen of death seem semi-normal.
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30 May 2014, 3:27 pm
Cute, but whats sad is I remember using those computers. 
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30 May 2014, 3:28 pm
AspergianMutantt wrote:
Cute, but whats sad is I remember using those computers.
but what is happy is that you got to use them when they were fresh and new.
01 Jun 2014, 6:01 am
01 Jun 2014, 6:43 am
JoelFan wrote:
I remember using the Apple ii e when I was in....3rd 4th grade the small green monochrome screen and those over sized floppies you'd have to take out and flip every so often but hey nothing beat reader rabbit and oregon trail Thankfully we have evolved from such primitive times lol
I wrote some software for the Apple II in the dim distant past. It was for the accounting department to reconcile invoices paid against invoices outstanding. It had a lot of data to process and my boss had written the previous version of the software and the computer had to be left untouched for around 24 hours to process all the data! I rewrote the software from scratch and used a better approach to processing the data and reduced the 24 hours down to around 30 minutes.
