Well. If we have to go there... My first language was a form of Binary known as Howling. Howl on and Howl off were the settings. I started programming when I was a day old. I was given a couple of robots, (models MUM & DAD) which I soon learnt to command via Howl. I was a fast learner. Within a day I'd learnt how to program one of them to bring me food to wherever I was. The other one wasn't so clever, and I had to write my longest program yet in a heavy sequence of Howl, but finally I got that damn robot to even wipe my Ass. After a year I moved onto assembler, which was very handy with the LEGO Logic OS.
I bet not one calculator did that. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Scadden Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 4:09 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] You say potatoe I say.... > My first tech device was a Sharp programmable scientific calculator, EL5101 > it had 48 yes 48 steps of program storage, and 5 memories. It also had a > wonderful LCD display and algebraic logic, eg you could enter expressions We must be similar vintage. Mine was the wonderful TI. Similar functions but easier than the HP25 RPN stuff. > And PDP-11's and VMS, fond memories. Guess where the DIR command came from? > My favourite memory is of a PDP-11 that crashed running RT11 which was real > fast....the console was on a separate power supply and it had this message > on it: well I am still programming vaxen. (Have machines that will not die). I don't have good memories of the PDP-11. The hair-raising sound on the edge of audibility as your winchester has a head-crash. You hear you data dying. oh and the 8in floppies. How I hated the memory managment on those things too. ---------------------------------------------------------- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
