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| From | Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: So, what was your computer birthplace? |
| Date | 2016-06-10 03:59 -0300 |
| Organization | Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop |
| Message-ID | <87vb1hedgt.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> (permalink) |
| References | <njc77f$jot$1@dont-email.me> <slrnnlk25l.k3r.howard@foxtrot.local> <njd97r02pv2@news6.newsguy.com> |
1964: one tiny program in FORTRAN on cards for an IBM 1620.
Nothing more until:
1980: Borrowed an Apple ][ for awhile, learned BASIC.
Nothing more until:
1987: Made a hand-raised copper curry pan, swapped it even for an
Osborne 1 with software & printer.
Learned C, 8080/Z80 assembler, wrote Conway's Life in BASIC, C and assembler.
Ended up with 7 Osbornes. Managed to compile XLisp but it was so big
that there was RAM left only for a dozen lines of Lisp.
1989: Was given an account on two networked academic systems with Unix
and VMS. Could log into these with the Osborne from home. Yes,
I created a termcap entry for the O1. One guy thought it was
hilarious to see Emacs on the O1 screen in the boondocks.
Omitting a regretable intervening episode using MS-DOS and Win 3.1 at
home,
Present: 5 assorted machines running Linux. At the moment, I'm
watching data scroll across the screen from a bicycle speedo
magnetic switch connected to button #1 of an old serial mouse
plugged into to a Linux P4 where a Perl script is watching
the serial port. The mag switch is positioned next to an
exerise wheel in a cage were a recently captured woodland
jumping mouse -- quite young, I think -- has run about 2.5
miles in the last 4 hours, hitting 2.91 mph max.
The 1964 FORTRAN instructor would be horrified. He wanted to teach us
numerical methods but the whole class threated to drop the course if
he didn't teach us how to, yew know, actually write a program.
--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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