Dream 2000... Step 1. Make PCB from tear out page in magazine...
Step 2. Solder all bits on to PCB... Step 3. Enter hundreds of code instructions from 10 pages in magazine... (Pray power company doesn't cut off power - what's a USP? .... oh you mean bunch of batteries). Step 4. Play the game. .... Now Olwen, you had the upper hand a moment ago... (mainly become I was rolling on the floor laughting at your comments, yes I enjoyed your humour that much :) Now please be kind and remember I was 9 when the Dream 2000 came out... be nice if you're going to start talking about whinding feric bed memmory! :) Cheers Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Williams, Olwen - SAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 2:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Gnomemeeting to go to QT --> QT Demo... > > > I don't consider myself to be a real programmer -- I started > in COBOL which > is not a real programmer's tool. > > The "real" programmers I knew were the ones who would punch > object code with > a 15 key hand card punch and load it on the B500 and have it perform a > useful task. > > But I do take exception to one of your comments. I don't > often answer to > "him". > > I was going to take exception with the 35 years, but > unfortunately you are > right (oh dear) > > Olwen Williams > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 1:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Gnomemeeting to go to QT --> QT Demo... > > > Olwen, > > You may consider your self a real programmer because you use a product > that's older than half of the programmers out there writting web pages > today... I'm not going to argue the toss with you on that > one :) Just > because you've been doing something badly and the hard way > for near on 35 > years is no reason to stop now (in my book anyway). > > (Dear God, please let Olwen see that I'm just pulling his > chain a little and > he should simply write me off with contempt for the comments > above, Kind > regards Don.) > > As for real programmers... the one guy I considered a 'real > programmer' > (this life time) could program in ASM faster than most people > I know can > read. I've never seen someone take 100,000 lines of code and > turn it into > something that works over night before I saw what this guy > did with some > call accounting software that we'd had someone else design. > > Anyway, I think I should leave the rest of this debate for a > beer down at a > local pub some time. > > > Cheers Don > > ____________________________________________________________________ > CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential > information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. > If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby > notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction > of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in > error please notify Safe Air Ltd immediately. Any views expressed > in this message are those of the individual sender and may not > necessarily reflect the views of Safe Air. > _____________________________________________________________________ > For more information on the Safe Air Group, visit us online > at http://www.safeair.co.nz/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > __________ NOD32 1.701 (20040401) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System. > http://www.nod32.com > >
