I agree - no complaints about my PC.

There was nothing like the joy of entering 50 lines of code, waiting for the modem connection, and then hearing the clacking of the mechanical teletype machine as it typed on a roll of yellow paper. It meant your program would run. As far as getting the correct answer - that's another topic :) Oh - and if someone programmed an infinite loop, the teacher had to call the university computer room for a reset.

Computer graphics? Forget it on that system unless you want ASCII characters.

Ed Ferguson

Hi Ed, woah MUMPS has become semi legendary now as one of the strangest programming languages to ever exist!

I got started with programming as a teenager on a Commodore 64 first with BASIC and then with 6502 assembly.

Something the other day was reminding me of how some C64 magazines used to transfer programs with just pages and pages of numbers that you manually typed in.

- Michael

Yep - The Commodore 64 launched a lot of careers for programmers.

After college, the first desktop machine I programmed was the Commodore PET. It looked like it would be right at home sitting on Darth Vader's desk. (Star Wars and the PET both came out in 1977)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET

It had integrated monitor and cassette storage :) My employer purchased it to control scientific instrumentation via the PET's IEEE-488 interface. It was very odd for Commodore to integrate that interface in a personal PC as it was only used to control industrial / scientific instrumentation, although IEEE-488 hard drives arrived in the late 70's.

Ed Ferguson

Those Commodore PETs were really cool! I remember them as something like the C64's older brother.

Being familiar with assembly language was a huge boost for me when I started learning C in college.

- Michael

Not really moi related but just fooling with smoke and particles for effect. a mini burnout.

Oh - so that was you up ahead of me on I-5 North !

Ed Ferguson

My version of a RatFink Van

Dragster winner! :)

Awesome! Big Daddy would approve :)

Ed Ferguson

Pilou, Ed,
thanks, fun to do a cartoon.
Val

final version, added a typical character and improved the smoke.

Hilarious! :)