Author Topic: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023 (Read 261012 times)

Kamaji · « **Reply #4203 on:** August 22, 2023, 05:24:43 pm »

Quote from: corbe on August 22, 2023, 04:16:23 pm

I'm old school, I started coding in 72 w/USAF~SAL/PAL (System Assembly Language/Program Assembly Language) on a Univac 1050-II. It usually involved Punch card operators/Sorters and a Reader in the Computer Room.

I later wrote in a variety of RPG's and JCL, dabbled in COBOL.

Hat's off! I learned me a little ASM on my old Atari 800 back in the day. Also taught myself some COBOL, mainly because a really cute girl in college was trying to pass one of her business classes, and they had to write a short program in COBOL. Otherwise, dabbled in FORTRAN, Pascal, .NET (via powershell), javascript, and PHP.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #4204 on:** August 22, 2023, 05:30:19 pm »

I always wanted to pick up ASM.

I came in with DOS... Maybe DOS 3 or so, and became a certifiable batch queen... to include mastery of DEBUG... and BASIC, which is where I cut my coding teeth. But I fell into Pascal, and loved Delphi, and still do.

Kamaji · « **Reply #4205 on:** August 22, 2023, 05:49:34 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on August 22, 2023, 05:30:19 pm

I always wanted to pick up ASM.

I came in with DOS... Maybe DOS 3 or so, and became a certifiable batch queen... to include mastery of DEBUG... and BASIC, which is where I cut my coding teeth. But I fell into Pascal, and loved Delphi, and still do.

I forgot all about BASIC - the Atari version thereof! I used to buy Compute! magazine and type in the Atari version of the games they published.

corbe · « **Reply #4206 on:** August 22, 2023, 05:53:46 pm »

I still remember the horrors of DOS EDLIN in trying to manage that hidden memory space between 720K and 1024K.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #4207 on:** August 22, 2023, 06:03:21 pm »

Quote from: Kamaji on August 22, 2023, 05:49:34 pm

I forgot all about BASIC - the Atari version thereof! I used to buy Compute! magazine and type in the Atari version of the games they published.

Not me. It all started for me when my soon-to-be mother in law (now ex MIL) gave me a busted HP 386SX, and my tinker instinct took over. That machine is why I (book) learned DOS, found how to boot from a disk, found out how/what to edit... and no sh*t, found a pie recipe in config.sys, and fixed it.

And that's all I do to this day... And everything I have written/published is toward that end... Hacking the system... Got cocky hacking over the net, got caught, and nearly did time. So I went back to Hands-On... which is usually kinda legal, sorta.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #4208 on:** August 22, 2023, 06:06:09 pm »

Quote from: corbe on August 22, 2023, 05:53:46 pm

I still remember the horrors of DOS EDLIN in trying to manage that hidden memory space between 720K and 1024K.

HAHAHA... EDLIN Ain't thought of that in a while... emm386 was like manna.

DB · « **Reply #4209 on:** August 22, 2023, 06:13:10 pm »

Quote from: roamer_1 on August 22, 2023, 06:06:09 pm

HAHAHA... EDLIN Ain't thought of that in a while... emm386 was like manna.

I didn't use EDLIN, it was nearly useless. I used Zywrite way back then.

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #4210 on:** August 22, 2023, 06:43:09 pm »

Quote from: corbe on August 22, 2023, 04:16:23 pm

I'm old school, I started coding in 72 w/USAF~SAL/PAL (System Assembly Language/Program Assembly Language) on a Univac 1050-II. It usually involved Punch card operators/Sorters and a Reader in the Computer Room.

I later wrote in a variety of RPG's and JCL, dabbled in COBOL.

The first computer I used was an early PDP-11. The CPU and peripherals took up an entire lab in 1975.