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My first computer was an Atari 800XL. I learned to program in Basic (kinda). I thought I was a genius when I was able to program our last name to bounce around the screen and change colors. :lol
 
Chocolate Lab said:
I laughed even though I don't know what you're saying. :lol
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The guy from the video you posted looks like the guy in Ghostbusters who Bill Murray called dickless because he forced them to shut down the power grid, which led to all the ghosts escaping.


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Landry said:
I can beat that when I was in high school I took a one week college course at Lafayette college with punch cards.
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Yeah they retired the punch card machine my freshman year at Maryland. The strangest interface I experienced was a line printer used as a dumb terminal in front of an IBM 370 mainframe. It would print your current screen, and you could edit one line at a time using commands to select the line first before the text substitution commands you'd apply to the actual line you were editing
 
Cujo said:
Yeah, it was a poor decision.
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I remember in the early 90s I bought an IBM (I forget the exact model) at a steep discount (I think it was still 100-200 dollars or something like that). The salesman was telling me it was marked down because it was obsolete since there was this new thing called the World Wide Web coming and this machine wasn't capable.

I was like, that's alright I don't need whatever the hell that is. :lol :unsure
 
Cotton said:
My first computer was an Atari 800XL. I learned to program in Basic (kinda). I thought I was a genius when I was able to program our last name to bounce around the screen and change colors. :lol
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I still have my 800XL, in its original box. I think I got it in 1983, I remember looking at the 600XL which I think came with 16kb of RAM, whereas the 800XL came with 64kb of RAM. It says on the back of the box, "What are you going to do with all that memory?!"
 
Irving Cowboy said:
I still have my 800XL, in its original box. I think I got it in 1983, I remember looking at the 600XL which I think came with 16kb of RAM, whereas the 800XL came with 64kb of RAM. It says on the back of the box, "What are you going to do with all that memory?!"
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Dude, I bet that is worth some money.

As an aside, the Texas Tech museum has an Atari gaming system and the old joystick controllers on display. I felt old as shit when I saw what I grew up with in a damn museum. :budd
 
ravidubey said:
Yeah they retired the punch card machine my freshman year at Maryland. The strangest interface I experienced was a line printer used as a dumb terminal in front of an IBM 370 mainframe. It would print your current screen, and you could edit one line at a time using commands to select the line first before the text substitution commands you'd apply to the actual line you were editing
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All I remember was it was a pain in the ass to even add 2 plus 2.
 
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