[Ham-Computers] RE: windows stuff

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

The Pet was by Commodore for whomever asked - 	
	
One problem with many of those games, as well as other programs, were errors.
You got the corrections the next month after you had typed it in until you had
nightmares of being eaten bit by byte!  

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From: Jay Eimer <ad5pe at familynet.net>
To: 'Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications,  or
experimenting' <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: RE: [Ham-Computers] RE: windows stuff
Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:08 PM

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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