Hey Lloyd,
For me is was the 4K Model I with Level 1 BASIC that I learned on. Only
I couldn't afford one only being in the 7th grade, so I rode my bike to
the Radio Shack in Clarksville, Indiana every day after school and sat
in front of their display model. Spent no telling how many countless
hours doing that.
I work at a small company in San Diego called IQ-Analog Corp. We
develop high speed ADC and DAC converters (high speed being 64GS/s) with
integrated DSP, processors, etc. For the previous 4 years I was the VP
of Engineering there and chief digital architect. But I stepped down as
VP last summer because of my cardiac issues and the need to reduce my
stress level, so now I am just a Technical Director an Chief Digital
Architect. I actually convinced the CEO to hire my old boss from
1997-2004 timeframe at Conexant Systems Inc. to be the new VP of
Engineering, so life is good now. :)
Ken
On 8/27/21 12:26 PM, Lloyd Johnson wrote:
Thanks Ken,
I think back and some of the most fun I ever had programming was with a 16K
TRS-80 Model 1 with Level 2 BASIC. I saved everything to cassette in the day
and had about 60 cassettes. I even wrote a data base of sorts that kept track
of what was on each tape. Unfortunately, I got rid of all the cassettes when
I got rid of the model 1 and there were many projects that would be fun to
revisit now that I'm retired.
Out of curiosity, where do you work (if you don't mind sharing)?
Lloyd
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From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> On Behalf Of Ken Pettit
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2021 1:09 PM
To: m100@lists.bitchin100.com
Subject: Re: [M100] Yet Another Calendar Program...
Hi Lloyd,
Sweet! I like the calendar you printed with a picture of yourself! At work
when designing (well actually simulating) the chips I design, I gobble up
almost all of 512G bytes of RAM. Amazing to think we can still get by with 32K
for some tasks. :)
Ken
On 8/27/21 9:33 AM, Lloyd Johnson wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I wrote yet another calendar program for the TRS-80 Model 100 and NEC PC-8201A.
I call it YACalP.ba.
You can find this program along with a pdf file containing the
documentation I wrote for this program at
https://github.com/LEJ-Projects/Yet-Another-Calendar-Program
I hope some of you will find it either interesting, useful or both.
Lloyd
