Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Greg Stewart]

Yeah...yeah...yeah... that assembly code was nice, just too much pushing and pulling 
for me. One of my school projects was to get a Northstar Advantage Z80 
microprocessor-based business machine (it actually had 2 [get that--two!?] 360k 5 1/4 
inch floppies!!! Brandy-spamkin' new!) to play music through the system speaker. It 
was in assembly and gave me more headaches than that feaking Fortran crap!

I preferred Pascal which I wrote under CP/M (where'd the slash go again?).

Oh, and BASIC on a 4k Commodore PET with built-in tape deck, and chiclet keys! (My 
fingers were the only ones small enough to use the damned thing!)

But that internet was definitely a hoot at 112 baud!

--Greg



> Didn't anyone use Assembler back then? I thought that came before
> COBOL? Personally I love Assembler. So much more control, although COBOL
> does have it's good points too.
> 
> -- 
> Mark
>   


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