Open letter to newbies (especially Cannabistourist)
- chkwoot
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Re: Open letter to newbies (especially Cannabistourist)
For Christmas 1975, my father got "me" this:
No monitor, keyboard, printer, storage, etc. Added some stuff the next year. At least I learned hexadecimal, IMDOS, and how to enter programs published in Byte magazine.
No monitor, keyboard, printer, storage, etc. Added some stuff the next year. At least I learned hexadecimal, IMDOS, and how to enter programs published in Byte magazine.
I am sooooo very sorry if you can't understand or appreciate my sarcastic facetiousness.
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Re: Open letter to newbies (especially Cannabistourist)
now can u please translate that into understandable english LOL....hexadecimal, IMDOS, and how to enter programs published in Byte magazine...
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
- John Bingham
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Re: Open letter to newbies (especially Cannabistourist)
What could you actually do with an Altair? Press a few switches and get some lights to flash?
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Re: Open letter to newbies (especially Cannabistourist)
Quite literally, just program in true machine code and watch the lights blink. Later versions introduced early Basic, and from there the developers bounced off and formed Microsoft.John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 3:26 pmWhat could you actually do with an Altair? Press a few switches and get some lights to flash?
Edit - and by "program" we're talking toggling the switches, no keyboard.
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Re: Open letter to newbies (especially Cannabistourist)
I hope you were practicing safe hex back then.
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Re: Open letter to newbies (especially Cannabistourist)
1970 I was programing in Pascal. I had to type the program out on a flexowriter which produced a punched tape that you fed into the computer. Invariably it didnt work and you marked the errors and then re typed the code. It used to take me about three goes!
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Re: Open letter to newbies (especially Cannabistourist)
looks like something to make codes for spy's
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
Re: Open letter to newbies (especially Cannabistourist)
I think your thinking of the CCM Mark 23
Re: Open letter to newbies (especially Cannabistourist)
looks like a telex machine
thru shit to more shit
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