[R-390] Fair Radio R-390A Question?

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> Same story for me in college when I took a required 300-level "C" programming
> class.  I didn't take notes and made all A's.  The other students didn't seem
> to like me very much, especially when I almost laughed out loud when they
> mentioned a study group before the finals...
> 
> Barry(III) - N4BUQ


I should have taken a C course too, and I regret not considering it when in
college. I learned a lot of BASIC many years ago when everyone learned some
programming with their first computers. I later learned  machine language
for 8 bit computers and that was extremely helpful in understanding
software. It also helped crack copy protections!

It was easy to learn ML back then....in a way. I don't see how anyone  could
learn it on their own now with the Pentium and Motorola instruction sets,
registers, etc. Everyone laughed at the claims in 1985 that Unix would be
the dominate operating system to learn for the future. We thought it an
almost dead dinosaur back then.

Speaking of courses, a good computer hacker friend of mine happened to land
in a long Army course with me in 1985. One of the course requirements was
the intro course to computers at the junior college. We had to write little
BASIC programs for grades. Mike and I skipped classes and wrote the programs
at home, linked them all together into a big package with menus, and
submitted it for the end of course grade. Mike got a bit carried away and
brought his computer to school for a demo on the last day. He had all kinds
of graphic effects, sounds, and embedded machine language routines. It
looked like a professional programmer had written it. The class was in awe
as they thought the 2 of us were the class deadbeats. The problem was that
Mike's demo was too good for the teacher. She was royally p.o.'ed at Mike
for being smug and showing her up.  She gave him a low grade out of spite.
(g)

Barry