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Old 11-19-2014, 09:01 AM  
sarettah
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Originally Posted by AdultKing View Post
You guys have it so easy these days. The first program I ever entered into a computer was called kill the bit and had to be entered in binary, one byte at a time into a front panel on an 8080 based computer.

This was the code in Octal:

000: 041 000 000 026 200 001 016 000
010: 032 032 032 032 011 322 010 000
020: 333 377 252 017 127 303 010 000

Now when I code in Objective C, a PHP Framework or even plain old C I never forget how much easier programming is now than it once was.
Fuck, you had Octal to work in. Cry me a river.

Back when I started programming we had to do everything in 0's. They hadn't even invented 1's yet


And we liked it dammit

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