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$5 submissions · 02-21-2009, 03:45 PM

If you think Vista or, for that matter, any other software product is a bitch, check out this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XV-7J5y1TQc This video demonstrates how one VERY patient guy programmed a 1970's era minicomputer using switches and paper tape. Old School represent!!!

I may be showing my age here but back in Junior High, I took an elective class on computers. We had to fill out fortran stock cards and fill out those bubbles. Took a lot of effort, and correct card sequencing, to get a "Hello, World." The teacher would get all the cards from us, put them in the school's mail sack, it will get to a central location with the minicomputer, and they would print out the results in those huge ass pieces of green and white print paper, and send it back. Total elapsed time: 3 to 4 days.

Kinda puts things in perspective whenever I feel my laptop's CPU is lagging

who · 02-21-2009, 03:58 PM

Yeah, and keep in mind that we think things are fast NOW... imagine in 50 years...

seeandsee · 02-21-2009, 04:10 PM

fuck old school, super hackers rules now!

MaDalton · 02-21-2009, 04:17 PM

10 print "Hello World!"
20 goto 10
run

$5 submissions · 02-21-2009, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaDalton

10 print "Hello World!"
20 goto 10
run

Loved that goto command

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 02-21-2009, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaDalton

10 print "Hello World!"
20 goto 10
run

BASIC was the bomb, my first coding experience on an apple 2e....

10 n = n + 1
20 print n
30 goto 10
run

qxm · 02-21-2009, 04:35 PM

I remember working in Cobol and Basic...... funny programming languages those

james_clickmemedia · 02-21-2009, 05:06 PM

We learnt to write pseudo code that way we could then put code into any language.
We did basic and cobol first, then C++

Rochard · 02-21-2009, 08:27 PM

I don't understand all of the bitching about Vista. I've been running Vista with no problems. Everything flies, photoshop, my games, everything is fine.

At the same time... I read a book about Microsoft and Bill Gates called "Hard Drive". They talk about the early programming they did where it took months of 0s and 1s to program a computer. My lord, I could never do what these guys did.

tony286 · 02-21-2009, 11:11 PM

that was good and its amazing how far its come in a pretty short time.

dougeetx · 02-22-2009, 12:37 AM

This is too funny b/c there's a company in Shreveport I used to work for in like 94 that had some of the same old ancient equipment. They did billing for a lot of companies around town. They were called Alpha Omega. They even had a mainframe with 8" floppy disk drives that clanked when it read the data from the disks. I worked on a DEC Vax 11/780 with 512K of ram. Try programming in COBOL 85 with those specs! The thing would lock up or give out of memory errors all of the time! Sheeesh!

Barefootsies · 02-22-2009, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by MaDalton

10 print "Hello World!"
20 goto 10
run

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