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: 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!!!:thumbsup

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 :1orglaugh:thumbsup

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

fuck old school, super hackers rules now!

10 print "Hello World!"
20 goto 10
run

Loved that goto command :thumbsup

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


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

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

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

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.

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

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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