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On Sunday 03 April 2011 15:13:09 luis jure wrote: |
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> on 2011-04-03 at 10:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> >It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage |
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> >might be a little too challenging. |
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> 3.5? wow, i always thought that the name meant it had 20K... like the C64 |
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> and C128. but no. now, almost 30 years later, i learn that it had 5K, 1.5 |
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> of them used by the system (you wouldn't want to leave the system without |
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> ram, would you?) |
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> i never had a vic-20 (my first computer was the atari st-1040 in 1988), |
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> but a friend of mine had one in the early 80's and i always wondered at |
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> all the things you could do with the thing. i couldn't program, so i used |
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> to sit next by him telling him my ideas for a program for algorithmic |
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> composition, that he tried to code. |
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Nice, a walk down memory lane :) |
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The first computer we had at home (apart from an IBM my dad borrowed a few |
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times) was an Atari 1040 ST. |
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We got it in 1986 and I can't even remember all the things I did with it. |
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It came with a copy of GFA Basic. This was a bit like C or Pascal, but then |
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with Basic commands. |
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No line numbers, a decent editor and a compiler and linker. I could mix |
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machine-code, basic-code and C-code into a final program to get a faster |
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result. |
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The machine still worked last time I tried it and is currently still stored at |
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my parents with strict instructions not to throw it away :) |
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