Have You Been Programming Too Long

[Hack]

I am soooooooooooooooooooooo #7 and #18

http://www.devx.com/DevX/Article/46382?trk=DXRSS_

[penagate]

7, 8, 9, and 18, at least...

[Torc]

7 & 18 definitely.

Can anyone enlighten me as to the TV Show reference in 12.

Also where can I get the language/compiler for 20.

[honeybee]

Some part of #2, though I don't instigate debates all the time.

#5 Yes, I did have a computer with 32KB memory

#14 yes, except the book writing part. Too lazy to write anything other than code.

#20 a bit, because I tend to write fewer lines now, whenever I have the occasion to write.

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[Nightwalker83]

#6 I can relate to.

[abhijit]

#18 is something I can relate to.

[JuggaloBrotha]

#3, #6 and #18 for me

[Max Peck]

I think #5 is the only one I relate to. Guess I'm just not "geeky" enough.

-Max

[wossname]

#99 You take up electronics instead and regret ever touching anything that doesn't run on valves.

If you can't do it with 32kb of eeprom then it's not worth doing.

[Justa Lol]

#18 is me, i never cared about others positions, i got what i got and i accept that

[namrekka]

I guess #16

[baja_yu]

Did I ever tell you that I started with Commodore 64? It's called that because it had only 64KB or RAM, and everything worked in those 64K. It also had a CPU of less than one MHz.

[honeybee]

Did I ever tell you that I started with Commodore 64? It's called that because it had only 64KB or RAM, and everything worked in those 64K. It also had a CPU of less than one MHz.

That's still double than the BBC Spectrum Plus I had!

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[baja_yu]

Showoff.

[moti barski]

what is UNIX shell ?

[honeybee]

The command prompt that you see when you log into a Unix system, without using any UI tools. Equivalent of what you get if you start a PC that only has MS DOS as the operating system.

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[Max Peck]

Did I ever tell you that I started with Commodore 64? It's called that because it had only 64KB or RAM, and everything worked in those 64K. It also had a CPU of less than one MHz.

Oh OK,now I get it. We're now going to start with the one-upmanship as to who had to program on the oldest hardware, eh? OK ...

My first programming experience EVER was on a CDC Cyber 74 located in the Computer Center at Georgia Tech. Wrote FORTRAN on IBM 029 punch cards. (Terminal, what's a terminal?). That was for my EE-1010 class back in 1976. The staff at the center had to keep throwing me out at 4AM because I wouldn't go back to my dorm: I always had one more run to submit. I'd go home at 4AM when they threw me out then I'd be back there at 7AM when the center re-opened. How I passed any of my other classes is a deep mystery!

The first "PC" I owned was a Timex Sinclair 1000. It had 2K of onboard memory and a 14K plug-in memory module. It ran a Z80 processor, also less than 1Mhz. My first program on that guy was a Z80 assembly program that I encoded into a BASIC program's DATA statements which allowed me to manipulate the MEMTOP location in the computer. With this ability I and a friend could co-develop a program. I could load my half first (from cassette) then run the MEMTOP program and then load his in from a difference cassette. I wrote the entire Z80 assembly program using only a yellow legal pad and the Z80 manual. It ran correctly the first time.

Next!

-CB

[honeybee]

I wasn't even born in 1976! I surrender!!

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[namrekka]

the one-upmanship as to who had to program on the oldest hardware, eh? OK ...

Next!

-CB

Ehhhh....radio bulbs?

[moti barski]

apparently unix shell = a kind of command prompt

[Merrion]

That's still double than the BBC Spectrum Plus I had!

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Sinclair Spectrum or BBC Micro?

[Max Peck]

@Honeybee - Surrender accepted! ;-)

@namrekka - Well, not QUITE that far back, but close! ;-)

-Max

[honeybee]

Sinclair Spectrum or BBC Micro?

Sorry, my mistake. It was a Sinclair Spectrum, not BBC Micro.

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