On Jan 16, 2008 1:47 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SJS wrote: > >> When I was in Jr High I had an Apple IIc and learned BASIC. Not sure > > > > Heh. You had a head start on me there. I was in high school when my > > family got a Vic20... I checked out computer magazines from the library > > and laboriously transcribed the BASIC programs so I could run them for > > so long as the computer was powered up. > > I guess I was fortunate. I started on a TRS-80 Color Computer.
TRS-80 FTW! I eventually switched to the PC where I was astounded that (a) you could not do color (I was on a monochrome PC), (b) you could not reuse your TV as a display device and (c) you could not pipe rock music from your tape player through your TV speaker. And people paid *more* money for PCs! Of course, there were advantages. Moving from line number BASIC to Turbo Pascal was a serious renaissance of programming for me and I don't recall any Pascal action on the Radio Shacks. Regarding assembly and machine language, I didn't discover it until I got "Peter Norton's Assembly Language" book for the PC. I was so fascinated I didn't stop reading it until I went to school the next morning. "*That's* why integers stop at 32,767!" > Since I was stuck in Western Pennsylvania, I had no one to turn to for > help, so I never learned what I *couldn't* do on a computer. Yep I was solo until I got to college and even then felt fairly solo until my second year when I ended up with a coworker as geeky as me. He cranks on Apple's dev tools now. > > They'll develop their own set of prejudices. We'll see how it works out. > > Oh, I'm sure they'll learn to hate computers just as much as we do. LOL! For me, it's a love/hate relationship. -Chuck -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
