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  • $5 submissions
    I help you SUCCEED
    • Nov 2003
    • 32195

    #1

    If you think MS Vista is a bitch...

    If you think Vista or, for that matter, any other software product is a bitch, check out this video: http://www.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
    So Fucking Banned
    • Aug 2003
    • 19593

    #2
    Yeah, and keep in mind that we think things are fast NOW... imagine in 50 years...

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    • seeandsee
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      • Mar 2006
      • 50945

      #3
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      • MaDalton
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        • Feb 2004
        • 39861

        #4
        10 print "Hello World!"
        20 goto 10
        run
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        • $5 submissions
          I help you SUCCEED
          • Nov 2003
          • 32195

          #5
          Originally posted by MaDalton
          10 print "Hello World!"
          20 goto 10
          run
          Loved that goto command

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          • Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life
            (felis madjewicus)
            • Jul 2006
            • 20368

            #6
            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

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            • qxm
              Confirmed User
              • Jul 2006
              • 5970

              #7
              I remember working in Cobol and Basic...... funny programming languages those

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              • james_clickmemedia
                Confirmed User
                • Apr 2003
                • 2204

                #8
                We learnt to write pseudo code that way we could then put code into any language.
                We did basic and cobol first, then C++
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                • Rochard
                  Jägermeister Test Pilot
                  • Dec 2001
                  • 75733

                  #9
                  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.
                  Herschel Savage
                  Brooklyn, NY

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                  • tony299
                    lurker
                    • Aug 2002
                    • 57021

                    #10
                    that was good and its amazing how far its come in a pretty short time.

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                    • dougeetx
                      Confirmed User
                      • Apr 2002
                      • 6163

                      #11
                      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!
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                      • Barefootsies
                        Choice is an Illusion
                        • Feb 2005
                        • 42635

                        #12
                        Originally posted by MaDalton
                        10 print "Hello World!"
                        20 goto 10
                        run
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