[Ham-Computers] RE: windows stuff

[Jay Eimer]

COBOL - COmmon Business Oriented Language.

And I (laboriously) typed in machine code programs (games) from magazines
into my Commodore Vic-20 (really my Mom's) in 1975.  I was 11, but the games
were way cool considering that they loaded from a 360k floppy (or even
early, from a C-60 cassette tape!)

I now proudly claim 30 years in computer programming, and I'm only 41.

Jay
AD5PE

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FORTRAN and COBAL.  I never used the latter as it was a bean counter thing.

But I had to take courses in FORTRAN II before I went to Vietnam and then
repeat except in FORTRAN IV after I came home and finished my degree.  Don't
recall what COBAL was an acronym for but FORTRAN was FORmula TRANslator or
something close.

My first machine was a C64 overlapped with the color portable SX64.
Followed by several CPM-II and CPM-III machines, first a C128 and then a
couple of Bondwell portables.

Incidentally, Aaron, was there ever a W2K non-Professional?  I know there
was an XP Home version as I cut its CD up and used if for shim stock (didn't
work worth a damn there either) but never saw any mention of anything other
than W2K Pro after the dummies in Redmond decided not to continue calling it
NT5.

In a message dated 8/30/2005 7:28:04 PM Central Daylight Time,
dfischer at usol.com writes: 
> Four Tran (sp?), Cobal

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