Same experience - handwriting - in VERY neat block caps - the code - getting results
back next week. Boy did it
make you be careful not to do typos in your code or have bugs in your program! We used
to bench run the programs
outloud before submitting to be sure they worked BEFORE the computer got hold of
them...
I also recall programming those TI-58 programmable calculators - sorta like machine
code with math operators. They
was even a moon lander game for it!
Final I remember an Open University (national university run by mail and tv in UK)
course where you could build a
computer and program it using a hex key pad - no wimpy QWERTY keys - just raw machine
code. I think I got it to
simulate a traffic light after a week of coding!
Any other early programming stories out there? (With hex ages of course).
- Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc http://www.teratech.com/
Adrian Cooper wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Braver, Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 7:19 PM
>
> > Hex: 33 Decimal: You do the math <g> (but I positively REFUSE to grow up!)
> >
> > Started out in COBOL on raised-floor mainframes, eventually went to stuff
> > like dBase, now Oracle client-server stuff and our business unit's intranet
> > using some CF. Sounds like a lotta experience, but sometimes I still think
> > I don't have a clue!!
>
> Since we're reminiscing - I wrote my first ever program at high school, after
> which we went on a field trip to the counties data processing center, and to
> watch rows and rows of ladies punching holes in cards. We then went to watch the
> cards being hopper fed into the side of a computer the size of a house (or so it
> seemed), and a few days later we got the output on lined paper.
>
> Those were the days :-)
>
> Adrian cooper.
>
>
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