2009/10/6 Duncan Bayne <[email protected]>: > I'm up to 20 years in IT myself ... if you count writing a flat-file > database (in Locomotive BASIC on an Amstrad CPC 6128) for my primary > school at the age of 10 ;-). Ah at school we had BBC B computers (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro). I still recall the expansion port, a horrendous thing that never kept expansion packs properly connected to the machine, resulting in hard lockups usually a long way into that basic programming assignment :)
> did (I'm pretty sure that isn't the _exact_ syntax, it's been 20 > years). I pondered that all the way home, and then tried it on my CPC > 464 that evening. I didn't figure it out, but I did stumble on the > correct behaviour by trial & error, & went in the next morning & fixed > the bug. I also had an Amstrad CPC 464, however after typing in a few games from magazines I happened across the bards tale (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard%27s_Tale_%281985_video_game%29) and thereafter became so hopelessly addicted my parents became unaware they had a son :) Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
