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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Tim Delaney
<timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> wrote:
> I received a copy of "The Beginners Computer Handbook: Understanding &
> programming the micro" (Judy Tatchell and Bill Bennet, edited by Lisa Watts
> - ISBN 0860206947) for Christmas of 1985 (I think - I would have been 11
> years old). As you may be able to tell from that detail, I have it sitting
> in front of me right now - other books have come and gone, but I've kept
> that one with me. It appears to have been published elsewhere under a
> slightly different name with a very different (and much more boring) cover -
> I can't find any links to my edition.

Heh. I wonder if I could still find back the copy of "Bible BASIC"
that I learned from.

And yes, I learned BASIC first. Moved on from there to 8086 assembly
language, using DEBUG.EXE as my assembler, and proceeded through a
variety of setups with crazy restrictions on them. Let's see... I
wrote non-TSR interrupt handlers that executed a subprocess and
cleaned up when that process finished; used BASIC with CALL ABSOLUTE
to handle a mouse pointer; got onto OS/2 but didn't have a C compiler,
ergo wrote OS/2 code in Pascal; wanted to write a device driver but
lacked both C compiler and assembler, ergo wrote a two-pass assembler
in REXX that piped everything through DEBUG.EXE running in a virtual
86 session; couldn't get hold of a copy of the no-longer-supported
VX-REXX, and so wielded a demo version with a weird system of creating
executables... you know, getting onto a Linux system with a real
toolchain was quite the luxury. (Okay, okay, I did have some slightly
more normal experiences in amongst the weird ones. But it sounds more
insane to pretend that the above was how _all_ my programming went.)

ChrisA

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Python programming ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 16:21 -0800
  Re: Python programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 12:17 +1100
  Re: Python programming Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-11 21:06 -0500
  Re: Python programming Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 18:46 -0800
  Re: Python programming Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-11 22:02 -0500
    Re: Python programming Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2014-02-11 23:14 -0500
    Re: Python programming Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 13:41 +0000
    Re: Python programming Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-12 21:00 -0500
      Re: Python programming Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-13 02:57 +0000
        Re: Python programming Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-12 22:04 -0500
          Re: Python programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 14:13 +1100
            Re: Python programming Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-13 15:13 +0000
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            Re: Python programming Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-02-13 05:18 +0000
          Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 03:30 -0500
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  Re: Python programming Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-02-12 15:09 +1100
  Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 08:55 -0500
    Re: Python programming Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-12 09:13 -0500
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      Re: Python programming Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-12 21:13 -0500
  Re: Python programming Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 08:02 +1100
  Re: Python programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 08:34 +1100
  Re: Python programming Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 09:57 +1100
  Re: Python programming Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-02-13 15:30 +0000
    Re: Python programming ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> - 2014-02-14 12:29 -0800

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