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Sep 5th, 2021, 10:42 PM
#441
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Back then, we didn't HAVE networks. Neither of the places I worked in the 90s had anything that could be considered a network.
I came from the time of IPX/SPX, Lantastic and later, Novell. LAN networks were built using coaxial cables. The internet arrived not to long after that.
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Sep 6th, 2021, 03:56 AM
#442
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Back then, we didn't HAVE networks. Neither of the places I worked in the 90s had anything that could be considered a network.
but the languages were supplied with the documentation when you bought them so you have all the functions in the book which is not anymore the case.
speaking of size and memory, my first PC had a hard disk of 20MB so the size optimization was the rule and before that the Dos was on a 5¼-inch floppy disk and on my first computer which was not a PC I saved my programs on a tape with that kind of device :
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Sep 6th, 2021, 03:58 AM
#443
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Compiling could take an awfully long time back then, too.
especially if you forgot a semicolon in your 2000 lines C application and don't manage to find it
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Sep 6th, 2021, 06:34 AM
#444
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
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Sep 6th, 2021, 06:40 AM
#445
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Delaney
especially if you forgot a semicolon in your 2000 lines C application and don't manage to find it
Or add one too many... more than once I ended up fixing bugs in C caused by code similar to
Code:
for(int i =0; i < 10; i++); //<-- note the trailing ; which effectively turns the loop into a noop!
{
//do something here
}
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Sep 6th, 2021, 11:02 AM
#446
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Delaney
but the languages were supplied with the documentation when you bought them so you have all the functions in the book which is not anymore the case.
speaking of size and memory, my first PC had a hard disk of 20MB so the size optimization was the rule and before that the Dos was on a 5¼-inch floppy disk and on my first computer which was not a PC I saved my programs on a tape with that kind of device :
My first computer was a TRS-80 Level 1 with 4K RAM and a tape drive. It could barely do ANYTHING.
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Sep 6th, 2021, 11:24 AM
#447
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Mine was a sanyo PHC 25 https://www.oldcomputr.com/sanyo-phc-25-1982/ with 16KB RAM so I was rich ! by the way Basic was already store in it in the ROM.
I shared this computer with my father (me doing game, him doing accounting program)
for those who think they have a bad screen, just imagine :
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Sep 7th, 2021, 03:04 AM
#448
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Yeah...up to a point. However, the power consumption of the computer is not really driven by the size of a program, so when it comes to power savings, that doesn't factor into it. As for the need to constantly advance technology, I said several years ago that we're kind of like Wiley Coyote who has run out off the edge of the cliff: As long as we keep running, we'll be okay, and by now, we can't make it back.
I understand your point..
As for the need to constantly advance technology,
I was trying to make a point that we don't seem to care about resources
look at a DVD-Player for instance, that is the technology you are talking about right ?
VHS-Recorder --> DVD-Player
the point I am trying to make is that it doesn't seem to matter if one can repair this thing,... you here stuff like...just buy a new DVD-Player, it's not worth repairing. Well you perhaps can repair some DVD-Player but 98% is ..throw away Article. I recently bought a Lamp, after a Year it broke and guess what
you couldn't change the LED, Customer-Service said.. oh it's under warranty, we'll send a new one, just throw that one away...
we don't really pay much attention to resources any more. We have some clever people that tell us every year.... Earth Overshoot Day...
sorry it is in Geman https://www.br.de/wissen/earth-overs...klima-100.html
you probably have the same for the US
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to hunt a species to extinction is not logical !
since 2010 the number of Tigers are rising again in 2016 - 3900 were counted. with Baby Callas it's 3901, my wife and I had 2-3 months the privilege of raising a Baby Tiger.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 03:20 AM
#449
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by ChrisE
the point I am trying to make is that it doesn't seem to matter if one can repair this thing,... you here stuff like...just buy a new DVD-Player, it's not worth repairing. Well you perhaps can repair some DVD-Player but 98% is ..throw away Article. I recently bought a Lamp, after a Year it broke and guess what
you couldn't change the LED , Customer-Service said.. oh it's under warranty, we'll send a new one, just throw that one away...
If it's less of a hassle to replace it than to repair it, there is no reason we shouldn't just replace it. I see nothing wrong here to be honest.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 03:39 AM
#450
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
If it's less of a hassle to replace it than to repair it, there is no reason we shouldn't just replace it. I see nothing wrong here to be honest.
and what is the cost to the planet of the throw-away? Who's paying to 'dispose' of it? What happens to it? Landfill, shipped abroad to have it's 'precious' elements stripped out without precautions?
No, IMO the less we throw away the better for out planet. If something can be repaired, it should be. Items should be designed with repairability in mind. I hate to think about how many portable phones have been thrown away for the want of simple repair - or laptops or TVs or...
Why back in the mists of time, I used to help a shop repair valve TVs and wireless sets. It was then far cheaper to have something repaired then to buy new. The way these devices were constructed made repairing them fairly easy.
If we are going to take care of our planet then we need to get back to having devices that can be repaired.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 03:49 AM
#451
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Niya
If it's less of a hassle to replace it than to repair it, there is no reason we shouldn't just replace it. I see nothing wrong here to be honest.
the point here is that it was not possible to just change the LED, everything else was fine.
to hunt a species to extinction is not logical !
since 2010 the number of Tigers are rising again in 2016 - 3900 were counted. with Baby Callas it's 3901, my wife and I had 2-3 months the privilege of raising a Baby Tiger.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 06:56 AM
#452
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Of course it is possible to change an LED. A soldering iron and/or a heat gun, new LED in place, two a penny from ebay.
If you can code and debug, you can fix a simple circuit. A broken LED replacement is easy. It is expected that coders should have some extended technical confidence that extends into the hardware their code runs upon. You don't?
I have just fixed an LED lamp where three LEDs in series were no longer lit. Even when you don't have the correct LED you can often implement a workaround. In this case I replaced the dead LED with a resistor, the other two now light up.
My own thread on this subject was closed due to abuse, this very similar thread is going thoroughly off topic but I like it that way!
My current computer (being rebuilt now) is a Sinclair Spectrum 128k+2
I cut my teeth on the BASIC in this thing (and earlier models).
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Sep 7th, 2021, 08:40 AM
#453
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by 2kaud
and what is the cost to the planet of the throw-away? Who's paying to 'dispose' of it? What happens to it? Landfill, shipped abroad to have it's 'precious' elements stripped out without precautions?
No, IMO the less we throw away the better for out planet. If something can be repaired, it should be. Items should be designed with repairability in mind. I hate to think about how many portable phones have been thrown away for the want of simple repair - or laptops or TVs or...
Why back in the mists of time, I used to help a shop repair valve TVs and wireless sets. It was then far cheaper to have something repaired then to buy new. The way these devices were constructed made repairing them fairly easy.
If we are going to take care of our planet then we need to get back to having devices that can be repaired.
I cannot afford such lofty ideals. We are just trying to get by like everyone else. Let the rich worry about such things. They can certainly afford to worry about such things when their bellies are always full. I have no time to worry about things I cannot change.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 09:20 AM
#454
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Niya
I have no time to worry about things I cannot change.
So why the fight about vb.net and VB6 ? Sorry I couldn't help myself, too tempting
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Sep 7th, 2021, 09:26 AM
#455
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Delaney
So why the fight about vb.net and VB6 ? Sorry I couldn't help myself, too tempting
Please do not re-rail this thread. It is currently about LEDs, non functioning hardware and old 8 bit computers.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 09:28 AM
#456
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by yereverluvinuncleber
Please do not re-rail this thread. It is currently about LEDs, non functioning hardware and old 8 bit computers.
So it is the right place for VB6
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Sep 7th, 2021, 09:32 AM
#457
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by peterst
So it is the right place for VB6
Not quite, though I do see your point.
I do know of a multi-tasking o/s that runs on 8bit hardware and it also runs BASIC but not VB6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS
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Sep 7th, 2021, 09:39 AM
#458
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
A good video explaining why BASIC is better on the zilog Z80 than VB.NET.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 09:40 AM
#459
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
VB.NET requires (grid of) quantum computers just to warm-up and start in half hour. It is not fair to compare it with Z80 power!
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Sep 7th, 2021, 10:01 AM
#460
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Delaney
So why the fight about vb.net and VB6 ? Sorry I couldn't help myself, too tempting
This is a programming forum. People come here looking for answers with regard to programming. It's not out of place to talk of such things as which language is better. We aren't that big here, it's true but we do have some effect. That is our lane. I don't know anything about "saving the planet". I have opinions, like everyone else and my opinion is to leave that to the folks who can worry about such things. I'm a programmer. I will worry about programming things. That means something both here and in my life. I have zero stake in this "save the planet" stuff. I don't make money from it. Nothing in my life revolves around it. Why would I waste my time on that?
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Sep 7th, 2021, 10:01 AM
#461
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by yereverluvinuncleber
A good video explaining why BASIC is better on the zilog Z80 than VB.NET.
Nah....QuickBasic was better.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 10:05 AM
#462
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
I get a laugh out of you all showing off your 8 bit hobbyist platforms from the past!
In 1986 I bought my first computer - a used PDP 11/34. 800 bucks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11
I made a serious living off this for a decade - replaced with a VAX...
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Sep 7th, 2021, 10:15 AM
#463
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by szlamany
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I made a serious living off this for a decade - replaced with a VAX...
I had a MicroVax 3100 for a while but that was in the 90s. The most grown up system I owned in the 80s was an Apollo Domain DN330 that I was given by a company that closed down. That was in approx the same timescale, 1987-ish.
I didn't need a Vax of my own as I was working on them all day for all my customers, 11/750, 780, uVax 2000, Vax 8300 &c - I was a consultant VMS sys administrator at that time.
Yay, we have changed another thread to a DEC thread!
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Sep 7th, 2021, 10:22 AM
#464
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Niya
Nah....QuickBasic was better.
I'm not sure. You try writing a multi tasking o/s in QB...
(actually Symbos is written in assembler...)
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Sep 7th, 2021, 10:23 AM
#465
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by szlamany
I get a laugh out of you all showing off your 8 bit hobbyist platforms from the past!
In 1986 I bought my first computer - a used PDP 11/34. 800 bucks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11
I made a serious living off this for a decade - replaced with a VAX...
Good thing you didn't encounter any anti-VAXers.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 10:40 AM
#466
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Good thing you didn't encounter any anti-VAXers.
Plenty encountered. Most Unixers at that time were anti-Vaxers: Xenix, Solaris, HP-UX, System 36 were the competitors. In those days it was all about MIPS and VUPS and what you could achieve in a clock cycle. Stable and solid VMS processes running dependably or Unix running quick and dirty threads doing a lot with a lot of potential instability. Windows at that time was just a bit ****. After all that time it has grown and morphed into something else but with Win 10/11 it has returned to its early roots of shitness.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 11:04 AM
#467
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Would you quibble with a nibble?
Would you gripe about a byte?
Do these facts about the VAX
All seem to you quite lax?
Then might I be so bold
To suggest languages of old
Aren’t a good modern bet,
So put your money on .NET.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 11:30 AM
#468
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
re: Symbos - "These sorts of development are great reminders of just how bloated modern software is and what is possible if you can avoid the bloat. These (z80) systems are less powerful than a typical modern washing machine or refrigerator."
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Sep 7th, 2021, 12:10 PM
#469
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
I remember back in the mid 80's when the TRS-80 was a hot new thing - sitting in the front entrance to every Radio Shack!
My business partner at the time and I wrote a program on that demo model sitting out front, with a READ and a bunch of DATA statements. Employees had no clue what we were doing. Those DATA statements had values that when run through the app we wrote would create big block letters on the screen. I wonder how many of the .Net'ers here even know what a READ/DATA statement is?
When RAN it said
TRS-80
SUCKS!
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Sep 7th, 2021, 12:25 PM
#470
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by szlamany
My business partner at the time and I wrote a program on that demo model sitting out front, with a READ and a bunch of DATA statements. Employees had no clue what we were doing. Those DATA statements had values that when run through the app we wrote would create big block letters on the screen. I wonder how many of the .Net'ers here even know what a READ/DATA statement is?
I know what they are. QuickBasic had them. They share some similarities with data directives in assembly. Probably where they got the idea. Interestingly enough, it seems to be one of the very few things modern BASICs left behind. Might not have been bad to have them around still. Then again, hash tables can serve the same purpose but are far superior.
Originally Posted by yereverluvinuncleber
re: Symbos - "These sorts of development are great reminders of just how bloated modern software is and what is possible if you can avoid the bloat. These (z80) systems are less powerful than a typical modern washing machine or refrigerator."
I'd rather run nails through my head than go back to the 90s. Yuck. Don't get me wrong, the nostalgia is nice but they are nothing more than fond memories. What we have today is far better. Having 1 kilobyte EXEs is not worth the trouble that comes with it, namely having to build every bloody thing yourself.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 12:52 PM
#471
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by szlamany
Those DATA statements had values that when run through the app we wrote would create big block letters on the screen.
We all did that. I did it on every PC on display in our WH Smiths store.
Originally Posted by szlamany
When RAN it said
TRS-80
SUCKS!
At that time no-one in the UK would have understood what that phrase meant. It hadn't made it over the ocean at that stage. My wording would have been probably more to the point and possibly even more rude at times.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 12:54 PM
#472
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by Niya
...go back to the 90s
Who is talking about going back to the 90s?
This thread is currently about the 8 bit 80s.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 01:06 PM
#473
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
I had one of these in 1978:
Cosmac Super Elf
The SuperElf single-board computer was made by Quest Electronics. It was an improvement of the Netronics Elf and Elf II training boards, also based on the RCA 1802, one of the first RISC microprocessors.
The board also featured an 1861 video chip that was closely tied to the 1802 to generate a video image of 128x64 dots.
It was more of a curiosity than anything. Very cheap and simple SBC featuring the unusual RCA CDP1802/1861 chipset and simple video output. You could add the expansion board but cost/benefit was such that few ever did. Few people even sprang for the crude enclosure.
It was similar in many ways to other SBC evaluation, training, and prototyping products of the time like the 6502-based KIM-1.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 02:32 PM
#474
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by szlamany
I remember back in the mid 80's when the TRS-80 was a hot new thing - sitting in the front entrance to every Radio Shack!
My business partner at the time and I wrote a program on that demo model sitting out front, with a READ and a bunch of DATA statements. Employees had no clue what we were doing. Those DATA statements had values that when run through the app we wrote would create big block letters on the screen. I wonder how many of the .Net'ers here even know what a READ/DATA statement is?
When RAN it said
TRS-80
SUCKS!
Takes me back a bit I remember using them on my old C64. Encoding sprites into data statements and then displaying them with a mixture of PEEK and POKE statements. IIRC you could squeeze a couple of sprites into the tape buffer at memory 832, assuming you didn't need to use the tape that is!
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Sep 7th, 2021, 03:52 PM
#475
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
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Sep 7th, 2021, 04:06 PM
#476
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Wow - just seeing ON...GOTO and ON...GOSUB statements again...
https://www.atariarchives.org/basicg...e.php?page=i12
I still feel that GOSUB has a place in the world...
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Sep 7th, 2021, 04:43 PM
#477
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by szlamany
HOLY ****!! WHAT A FIND!!. We had that book or at least one very much like it.
Originally Posted by yereverluvinuncleber
Who is talking about going back to the 90s?
This thread is currently about the 8 bit 80s.
That so called "bloat" you're talking about is the part that makes modern programming less of a chore than it would have been in the 90s. If anyone today wants to avoid the "bloat", they can very easily on Windows, just build your program using pure Win32. See how much fun that is. You'll get those tiny programs some of you love so much.....only we aren't really avoiding "bloat" are we. It still requires several GB of Windows......
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Sep 7th, 2021, 05:23 PM
#478
Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by szlamany
I still feel that GOSUB has a place in the world...
All my DCL scripts (some quite huge) used GOSUB and RETURN.
At that time, DCL could not handle sub routines other than GOSUBs. They look very familiar, I do not feel like using them again.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 06:08 PM
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Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
You folks are OLD. I thought I was old, but I was in high school in the early 80s.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 06:45 PM
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Re: Why is VB.Net/C#/XAML + VS2019 is better than VB6? Here's why.....
Originally Posted by szlamany
In 1986 I bought my first computer - a used PDP 11/34. 800 bucks!
When I was in high school (1982) a local business donated a PDP-8. The school officials had no idea what to do with it so they donated it to the electronics lab. We gutted it for parts. LOL
Later that school year (I was a junior) the lab got a pair of TRS-80s where I wrote my first BASIC code. But I forgot to load a 5-1/4 floppy disk first so I lost all that work because loading a floppy meant rebooting the machine before it could be read.
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