Author: mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
Posted: 2017-09-01 10:56:00 Link
On 2017-09-01 03:31, Dave Crozier wrote:
> Brilliant ingenuity!
>
> I started on Fortran, Algol 60 and COBOL but only liked Algol and went
> on to love Pascal obviously.
Loved loved loved Pascal way back in the late 80s/early 90s. I think
somebody said that Delphi is today's Pascal?
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Author: Laurie Alvey
Posted: 2017-09-01 12:04:47 Link
Didn't everyone at least dabble with BASIC? I started out with a Commodore
VIC20 which (I believe), had 3.2 kB of RAM.
Laurie
On 1 September 2017 at 16:56, <mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com>
wrote:
> On 2017-09-01 03:31, Dave Crozier wrote:
>
>> Brilliant ingenuity!
>>
>> I started on Fortran, Algol 60 and COBOL but only liked Algol and went
>> on to love Pascal obviously.
>>
>
>
> Loved loved loved Pascal way back in the late 80s/early 90s. I think
> somebody said that Delphi is today's Pascal?
>
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Author: Jean MAURICE
Posted: 2017-09-01 12:11:42 Link
Hi Laurie,
I had a Vic20 and I think it was the first microcomputer to have 64koctets of
memory. It was based on a 6502 microprocessor. I spent a lot of nights with it
.... before meeting my future wife !
The Foxil
Le 01/09/2017 19:04, Laurie Alvey a écrit :
> Didn't everyone at least dabble with BASIC? I started out with a Commodore
> VIC20 which (I believe), had 3.2 kB of RAM.
>
> Laurie
>
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Author: Ted Roche
Posted: 2017-09-01 12:44:54 Link
"The VIC-20 had 5 KB of RAM, of which only 3.5 KB remained available
on startup (exactly 3583 bytes)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Laurie Alvey <trukker41@gmail.com> wrote:
> Didn't everyone at least dabble with BASIC? I started out with a Commodore
> VIC20 which (I believe), had 3.2 kB of RAM.
>
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Author: Laurie Alvey
Posted: 2017-09-01 13:44:06 Link
Yeah, the one "with the enormous memory" was the Commodore 64 (64K)!
Laurie
On 1 September 2017 at 18:44, Ted Roche <tedroche@gmail.com> wrote:
> "The VIC-20 had 5 KB of RAM, of which only 3.5 KB remained available
> on startup (exactly 3583 bytes)."
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
>
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Laurie Alvey <trukker41@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Didn't everyone at least dabble with BASIC? I started out with a
> Commodore
> > VIC20 which (I believe), had 3.2 kB of RAM.
> >
>
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Author: Jean MAURICE
Posted: 2017-09-01 14:23:33 Link
So, I think I am beginning with Alzheimer !
The Foxil
Le 01/09/2017 20:44, Laurie Alvey a écrit :
> Yeah, the one "with the enormous memory" was the Commodore 64 (64K)!
>
> Laurie
>
> On 1 September 2017 at 18:44, Ted Roche <tedroche@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "The VIC-20 had 5 KB of RAM, of which only 3.5 KB remained available
>> on startup (exactly 3583 bytes)."
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Laurie Alvey <trukker41@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Didn't everyone at least dabble with BASIC? I started out with a
>> Commodore
>>> VIC20 which (I believe), had 3.2 kB of RAM.
>>>
>
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Author: John Weller
Posted: 2017-09-01 17:02:46 Link
I first learned to program in a very primitive form of BASIC on an Elliott 4130. The first 'real' program was to analyse the data from a flight trial and became quite convoluted. Unfortunately the system didn't have a renumber option and could only print the code in the order it was entered rather than numerical order. I found it very difficult to debug and ended up by cutting a printout into individual lines then pasting them on to a blank sheet in the correct sequence. Fortunately soon after it was replaced by a DEC20 with an Algol compiler; I taught myself Algol in awe and wonder at its power and never looked back :-)
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Author: Vince Teachout
Posted: 2017-09-01 17:59:34 Link
TI-994A. Unpacked it at 2:00 in the afternoon, started playing with
BASIC, and a few minutes later realized it was 3:30 AM.
On 9/1/2017 1:04 PM, Laurie Alvey wrote:
> Didn't everyone at least dabble with BASIC? I started out with a Commodore
> VIC20 which (I believe), had 3.2 kB of RAM.
>
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Author: Fred Taylor
Posted: 2017-09-01 18:13:50 Link
Been there, done that with a TRS-80 Model 1. Several times.
Fred
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Vince Teachout <teachv@taconic.net> wrote:
> TI-994A. Unpacked it at 2:00 in the afternoon, started playing with
> BASIC, and a few minutes later realized it was 3:30 AM.
>
>
> On 9/1/2017 1:04 PM, Laurie Alvey wrote:
>
>> Didn't everyone at least dabble with BASIC? I started out with a Commodore
>> VIC20 which (I believe), had 3.2 kB of RAM.
>>
>
>
>>
>
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Author: mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
Posted: 2017-09-01 20:37:47 Link
On 2017-09-01 13:04, Laurie Alvey wrote:
> Didn't everyone at least dabble with BASIC? I started out with a
> Commodore
> VIC20 which (I believe), had 3.2 kB of RAM.
Oh yes. My first was GW-BASIC on our AT&T home computer.
10 PRINT "Hello"
20 GOTO 10
:-)
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