[nflug] You qualify as a Dinosaur if ...

[Tyler Poland]

Well, my first experience was working with C++ on an ancient Pentium 166
MMX, but now I'm dating myself ;)

Tyler


On 4/19/07, Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  Hey, COOL!  I started on Erie BOCES computers, too.  APL was the first
> language I learned.  Got pretty good at it, too.  Learned all of the atomic
> vectors (character set) and wrote a 3D chase game on that hard copy
> terminal.  We had 300 baud, I think.  An old DECWriter III.  Acoustic
> coupler on the desk.  Those were the days.  Then I went to college and they
> wanted us to do FORTRAN on cards.  One working card punch and 60 students in
> the course...  Notoriously poor typists, all...  The only time you could
> work was 2AM...sometimes.  Three day turnaround on jobs...  Yeah, I didn't
> last long at that school...  Nowadays, if it doesn't come with a full GUI
> and context sensitive helps, it sucks and can't be used...  I've watched
> companies try to write whole application sets in VB 'cuz it's "easy".
>
> I'm going to crawl back under my rock with C, vi and make...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Len Thornton <len at lenthornton.com>
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:02:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [nflug] You qualify as a Dinosaur if ...
>
>  Okay, have to chime in here.
>
> BASIC and APL on a 110 baud printer terminal connected to Erie BOCES is
> where it all began for me.
>
> Then it was writing tank games on 24x80 character TRS-80s.  Home was a
> VIC-20.
>
> And, like many others, I spent many a night camped out at Ridge Lea campus
> submitting my FORTRAN decks and debugging.  The Cyber 370 was all we had.
> Later, some DEC PDP-11's were added to the department and we used YACC (Yet
> Another Compiler Compiler).  That was fun...
>
> Kids today don't realize how easy they have it.
>
> Len Thornton
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