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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 16:04, Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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Oh, the nostalgy... :-) |
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My first computer I believe was an Apple ][, a hand-down from an |
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uncle. It ran only for 1-2 weeks before it went to the Bit Bucket in |
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the Sky. |
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Then my parents got me an Atari 800XL. That's where I cut my |
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programming teeth with its built-in BASIC. |
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When its floppy drive (5.25") gave up the ghost, I got another |
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hand-down; a PC-XT compatible no-name with a huge (at that time) 20 MB |
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hard disk. |
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Again, it died after serving me & my brother for a couple of years, |
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and we got a "PC Brand 486 SLC" desktop. And there I dabbled in Pascal |
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and ASM, making replacement drivers for MS-DOS :-P ... I still |
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remember tuning QEMM386.sys trying to eke the last bytes of Low |
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Memory... |
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Afterwards, I started university, and its a blur of PC clones (and |
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Windows 9x)... and I shifted mental-gears to become a network engineer |
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:-) |
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Rgds, |
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Pandu E Poluan |
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