Nostaliga post

[Cbrine]

10 PRINT "BIG HAIRY ****"
20 GOTO 10

Ah the fun of this, and swear words on the computers at Zellers for budding programmers.

I learned basic on my 4kb Commodore Vic-20, with a 4kb expansion cartridge, making those crappy "Word Adventure Games".
It's surprirsing how much of what I learned is still applied in vb and vba today.

 

[Greg Truby]

It's surprirsing how much of what I learned is still applied in vb and vba today.

Indeed. Hard to believe stuff like

Open "abc.txt" For Input As #1

and the older commands PRINT, LINE INPUT #, WRITE, GOSUB/RETURN, LSET, RSET and the like still have their uses. But, I supposed even in an age of pnuematic hammers, cordless drills & laser distance measuring, a good carpenter still has use for a hammer, a screw driver & a tape measure.

It also surprises me how even now there are monthly tasks where the quickest way to get the job done is to shell out to the command/DOS window.

 

[Lewiy]

My first "computer" was a Dragon 64...many Cuthbert games stick in the memory...as does the cassette player and 5.25" floppy drive!!

But after that I was an Amiga child...A500, A1500, A4000 and a CD32...those were the days!!!

 

[steve case]

I took personal typing in High School circa 1959 or so. Best thing I ever did. After pushing airplanes on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier for Uncle Sam's Navy, I got the opportunity to tell the leading Chief, "Chief, I can type!" He set me down in front of an old manual machine, pointed to a page in the dictionary and said, "Show me." Clack ... clack .... clack he ripped the paper out of the machine and I said, "Didn't do too good huh Chief?" He replied, "Nope, you can touch type we got a spot for you, your speed will pick up." I've been behind a desk ever since (-:

First computer: Vic 20 my wife came home with the thing.
Next, Commodore 64
Then an Apple 2GS
And a Mac
Finally a PC

 

[MorganO]

But after that I was an Amiga child...A500, A1500, A4000 and a CD32...those were the days!!!

Oh the Amiga... after my adolescent love of the C-64 my first real love was the Amiga 500. It took me through college, through marriage, through my first jobs...

I used my A500 religiously until I moved into the corporate world and had to conceed to moving to an IBM compatible...

I still miss it!

wen