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Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

Jake — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:33:04 -0000

All this nostalgia has me thinking about a throwback post for all the geeks out there. Maybe later today I'll put some thought behind that.

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

Floyd — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:45:23 -0000

Right there with you in regards to programming on tape...remember the Radio Shack TRS-80? Wish I still had one, just for old time's sake.

In fact, tape was a step up from the card batches I used in college! Gee, I'm an old bugger...

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

Raimonds — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:56:07 -0000

Unfortunately not. This was not our home computer - I went to dad's work at University where I could get to this computer to do some programming couple times per week.

Later my first Unix experience was on Russian clone of PDP-11 minicomputer where my older brother managed to install Russian clone of Unix and I could do my first C programming :) (reading K&R C language book in all capital letters as on Russian printers small Latin letters were replaced with Russian letters)

These olden days were fun - then programming was done just by geeks who really enjoyed it :)

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

rmanalan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:03:02 -0000

Do you still have that computer? That thing would probably sell for a pretty penny on eBay! I wish I still had my Timex Sinclair. I have fond memories hooking that up to a black and white TV and turning the volume down (no sound).

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

Jake — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:00:38 -0000

In Soviet Russia, computer programs you.
:-)
The tape recorder and connection to a TV seem pretty cool, compared to what we had in the 80s.

I wasn't the hardcore hobbist Rich was, but I did my share of messing about with the Apple's in the "computer lab". Remember when a floppy disk really was floppy, and a whole game fit on it?

Ah. Pong. I miss you.

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

Raimonds — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:46:12 -0000

I wanted to say that my first programming experience in late 80s was on Soviet home computer BK-0010 which also had a tape recorder and which you connected to standard TV set. And you needed to program either in assembler or in FOCAL language. So our beginnings were similar :)

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

Jake — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:20:17 -0000

We need to talk IRL about why my video drivers don't work. It doesn't make sense, unless you have NVIDIA or something else.