I had to use an abacus with only one bead per string for binarry. Flippity, flip, flip, flip. Gates were hell. I had to have an "assembly" of 12 abaci around my neck.
On 6/1/05, Tom Dimock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > > > Timex Sinclair 1000 by any chance? > > Agh, you youngsters... My first program ran on a Burroughs 220 that > was a vacuum tube based computer! But seriously, I agree fully that > having learned on machines that had very limited memory, and having > spent a lot of time writing assembler made me a much better > programmer. But what I think contributed the most was that all of my > early programming was done on mainframes where one compile and run > (actually compile, link and run; remember link editors and overlay > structures?) per day was considered pretty good turnaround. If you > were going to get your programming assignments done on time, you > learned to debug code by reading it and thinking until you found the > errors. I still make very little use of debuggers to this day, and > find the younger programmers completely mystified as to how I ever > get code to work. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
