>
> Don't forget to bring a towel.
>
> Sellam
The fact that we all probably got that reference is the amazing part.
-Ali
On Wed, May 1, 2024, 8:03 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> Our booth bimbo gave herself the title, "BAIT"
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred
>
Boobs And Invitation Technician?
Sellam
>
On Wed, May 1, 2024, 7:48 PM Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
>
> My paper, pens, pencils, post it, duct tape, batteries, cash, blank
> disks, memory cards, blank CDs, blank DVDs, small ethernet cable, small
> USB cables (the rollup kind) are all in my computer bag, so they go
> everywhere, as well
Then there was Phantasm for basic Gavin wrote!
Sent from AOL on Android
On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 8:44 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk
wrote: BASIC was always a popular language in the Hewlett-Packard world. From
the HP 2000 timesharing BASIC that was popular in educational settings
similar to
Am I the only one on this list who designed and implemented a business
BASIC? (I did have two programmers to work with me. Did it in about 4
months).
Multiuser on an 8085; later versions were re-hosted on Xenix.
BASIC was always a popular language in the Hewlett-Packard world. From
the HP 2000 timesharing BASIC that was popular in educational settings
similar to the original DTSS, To BASIC/3000 on the HP 3000 which was a
first-class language with both interpreter and compiler (producing
very fast code),
On Wed, 1 May 2024, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
Games are always a good draw, even if that seems like cheating.
In the early days of the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga, (and I may have the
two reversed in the following anecdote), Atari had a nice display of a
bouncing checkered beach ball.
On 5/1/2024 9:21 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Bring lots of business cards. Even if you aren't running a business,
it's a lot better than standing there writing your contact information
for everybofy that you want to stay in touch with.
Well, or a couple pieces of paper with QR codes for
Bring lots of business cards. Even if you aren't running a business, it's
a lot better than standing there writing your contact information for
everybofy that you want to stay in touch with.
paper, pens, pencils, post-it notes, stapler, duct tape, voltmeter,
batteries, flashlight, cash,
Just reaching out to anyone who has exhibited at a vintage computing
festival before. After years of only being able to watch others attend the
ones that happen in the US, we are finally getting one in BC here. Super
excited. I was invited both to speak and to exhibit, and they even got me
two
My first experience with programming (BASIC) and even computers was on an Atari
400 in 9th grade. I hated those damned things, I guess mainly on account of the
membrane keyboard. Elfin tight wads. In 10th I again decided to enroll in
computer courses, FARTRAN and then COBOL. Mostly on teletype
On 5/1/2024 8:04 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 5/1/24 16:51, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
APL was incredible. I was amazed. I was immediately able to do a few
simple things that were useful for my boss and myself, and writing
simple programs within hours. Its matrix arithmetic was
On 5/1/2024 7:51 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
What would our world be like if the first home computers were to have
had APL, instead of BASIC?
Maybe not instead of BASIC but I had APL on my TRS-80.
bill
On Wed, 1 May 2024, Mike Katz wrote:
I remember replacing the character generator eprom (the type with the window
for UV erasing) on an old ATI EGA video board so that I could have the APL
character set.
sweet
At least one of the ATI EGA boards had a daughter board available to be
able to
Fred,
It's not a big deal. I was exposed to the DTSS as a 7th grader because
I was going to a boarding school near by in 1972.
The school I was at had a PDP-8/L and I became an early adopter computer
geek.
On 5/1/2024 6:05 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 1 May 2024, Mike Katz
I remember replacing the character generator eprom (the type with the
window for UV erasing) on an old ATI EGA video board so that I could
have the APL character set.
On 5/1/2024 7:14 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
APL was incredible. I was amazed. I was immediately able to do a few
On Wed, 1 May 2024, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Yet FORTRAN, the granddaddy of them all, continues on... It should be
noted that FORTRAN celebrates its 70th anniversary this year:
I didn't start until May 29, 1965.
I had previously been doing some keypunching, and 084 counting sorter.
IBM
APL was incredible. I was amazed. I was immediately able to do a few
simple things that were useful for my boss and myself, and writing
simple programs within hours. Its matrix arithmetic was awesome. APL
typeball on a selectric terminal at GSFC, . . .
Some of the keys were re-labeled, but
On 5/1/24 16:51, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> APL was incredible. I was amazed. I was immediately able to do a few
> simple things that were useful for my boss and myself, and writing
> simple programs within hours. Its matrix arithmetic was awesome. APL
> typeball on a selectric terminal at
In ‘81 FORTRAN77 was the first language I learnt, but it was BASIC that
started my IT career. I was writing programs at Griffith University for
various lecturers and research staff. This was before the uni even had a
dedicated Computer Science Degree.
If it wasn’t for BASIC, I’d probably be a
On 5/1/24 16:37, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> To be sure, BASIC was hardly unique in terms of the 1960s interactive
>> programming languages. We had JOSS, PILOT, IITRAN and a host of others,
>> based on FORTRAN-ish
On Wed, 1 May 2024, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
To be sure, BASIC was hardly unique in terms of the 1960s interactive
programming languages. We had JOSS, PILOT, IITRAN and a host of others,
based on FORTRAN-ish syntax. not to forget APL, which was a thing apart.
What would our world be like
APL is very much alive - it was invented in the '60s.
Lisp is slightly older and it, as well, is still in active use - and it's older
than FORTRAN, which was the inspiration for BASIC.
From: "Sellam Abraham via cctalk"
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
Cc: "Sellam
Power supply problem?
Marc
> On Apr 30, 2024, at 8:58 AM, Dominique Carlier via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone
>
> I need your help to identify an issue on my Diablo Model 40 Series. I don't
> know where to look, it's so vast !
>
> Here's the problem:
> When RUN is activated, the drive
On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> To be sure, BASIC was hardly unique in terms of the 1960s interactive
> programming languages. We had JOSS, PILOT, IITRAN and a host of others,
> based on FORTRAN-ish syntax. not to forget APL, which was a thing apart.
>
> --Chuck
>
To be sure, BASIC was hardly unique in terms of the 1960s interactive
programming languages. We had JOSS, PILOT, IITRAN and a host of others,
based on FORTRAN-ish syntax. not to forget APL, which was a thing apart.
--Chuck
Anyone interested in a flavor of BASIC try my version of BWaterBasic for
Linux, Windows and DOS
athttps://yeolpishack.net/repos/KenUnix/BwBasic
It's pretty fast. Full source and DOCs are also there.
Ken
On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 7:05 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2024,
Considering the time that it was introduced to the world, and what it was
intended to do, and what it did do, and how it went on to become something
much, much greater than what Kemeny and Kurtz ever envisioned (even though
they didn't like much of it), BASIC does not get nearly as much credit as
On Wed, 1 May 2024, Mike Katz wrote:
I'm sorry but the original BASIC as run on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System
was compiled.
I wasn't around Dartmouth, and my first experiences with BASIC were all
interpreted.
I had run a trivial program in it on a Silent 700 connected through a
phone
I'm sorry but the original BASIC as run on the Dartmouth Time Sharing
System was compiled.
On 5/1/2024 5:26 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 1 May 2024, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Nostalgia keeps pressing ahead: It was 60 yrs. ago that BASIC came into
existence. I remember
IMHO, “C” nomenclature really screwed up the equality vs assignment statements.
The == made it difficult to understand especially if you came from a language
that didn’t have it. Basically all languages before “C”.
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 1, 2024, at 15:39, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
I remember that one of the changes that "street" BASICs made was to make
the keyword "LET" be optional.
Thus, instead of writing
LET X = 3
you could write
X = 3
unfortunately, that further confused the issue of ASSIGNMENT versus EQUALITY,
and many beginners tried to write
3 = X
while they
On Wed, 1 May 2024, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Nostalgia keeps pressing ahead: It was 60 yrs. ago that BASIC came into
existence. I remember very well writing in Apple Basic and GW Basic later
on. As a non-compiled OS, an interpreted OS, it was just the right tool for
a microcomputer
The Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC)
Developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in
1963. This ran on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS) which was an
early time sharing system running on Honeywell and GE Main Frames with
Datanet systems
Nostalgia keeps pressing ahead: It was 60 yrs. ago that BASIC came into
existence. I remember very well writing in Apple Basic and GW Basic later
on. As a non-compiled OS, an interpreted OS, it was just the right tool for
a microcomputer with limited memory. I recall fondly taking code from
I can't vouch for later drives, but the earliest 600RPM Sony drives were
built we no knowledge of HD vs DD, so covering the HD hole is probably a
moot point in the HP drives, though it is likely worth taping over it
for any formatting options.
It's worth noting that the speed is pretty much a
On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 5:38 AM Paul Berger via cctalk
wrote:
>
> As Mike said there are two models 9114A and 9114B, they are functionally
> equivalent, however the B model uses a 1/2 high drive mechanism and I
> believe there are changes to the controller as well, but I have only
> seen the
Well from pictures I found online at
https://www.ebay.com/itm/315148732505 it would seem that the A model
just said "9114" on the front however the serial number label on the
bottom says 9114A.
Paul.
On 2024-05-01 4:39 a.m., Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
Thanks, Paul,
I'm aware of the 9114A
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 at 18:08, Mike Katz via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Does anybody have any extra 720K (double sided, double density) 3.5"
> Floppy Disks that could use a good home?
>
> If so, please email me directly at bit...@12bitsbest.com.
In what country? That massively impacts many people's
Thanks, Paul,
I'm aware of the 9114A and B versions and some of the differences, but I'm
wondering whether my 9114 is identical to the 9114A.
Is it maybe like World War I which was just 'The Great War' until WW
II came along; same war, different name.
m
On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 12:38 AM Paul
On 01/05/2024 00:27, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
Thank you.
My goal is not to use HD floppies on a drive not designed for them. I
saw some on ebay and amazon but I thought I would try here to see if
anybody had some they don't need. I would help keep them out of the
trash.
I have lots,
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