My personal introduction to computers was TTL hardware. Anything I learn has to have some end goal or purpose.
As my circuit boards got more and more complex, and wire wrapping was such a pain just to lay out a little bit of stupid logic, that about 1975 I started looking for a "better way" to control things. That led to a Z80 single board computer and Hex entry, then to an Apple ][ in assembly, basic and compiled basic, to a PDP-11 running Forth, a Rockwell AIM-65 computer running forth on ROM, back to Apple, then to a Mac, to hypercard, now Rev.... I've recently been going through a painful purge of my Apple ][ hardware, starting with all the data on the 51/4" disks. There's a very nice cross-platform system called ADT that allows a mac to be a server for an Apple ][ client through several methods. Basically you can start with bare iron and create an ADTPro system disk (it does pokes in the monitor very slowly here) that eventually sets up a network between the two for transfers at 115,000 baud! I didn't even know the Apple could do that. The resulting files are .dsk images that an Emulator like Virtual ][ can read. Anyway, mid-mission the old Apple ][ plus keyboard failed. I had all these disks sitting around... Finally I bit the bullet and bought a very nice Apple ][e and drive for about $60 on ebay, with shipping. Finished the job. It takes about 30 seconds to copy a 140k disk. Earlier ADT users may remember it took a lot more time in years past. Very fine coding - Now all rewritten in Java. It runs in ProDos but copies any format. http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/ But I've had my fill of nostalgia, the small programming spaces, the awkward typing, disk errors, bad keyboards, etc. This stuff was wonderful for it's time, I made my living for years with it and I love my old machine dearly, but .... I so appreciate the tools I have now. Anybody in the SF area that wants a few Apple disks copied before I tear this rig down let me know.... ------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev 2009/11/20 Alejandro Tejada <capellan2...@gmail.com> > > Actually, this is really enlightening, given that > I do not live that time in computer history. > > I remember that when i was a teenager, two of my > neighbors were University teachers who used > punch cards in their classes. Somewhere in this > house, there are some of these punch cards. > > Always picked my curiosity to know what these > holes actually means... :-D > > This have potential to create a future assignment > for Multimedia students. > > Alejandro > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/Looking-for-a-defined-path-to-learn-Rev-for-new-users-tp624612p632287.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution