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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #30 on: 12 January 2009, 21:58:13 »
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I did learn C and C++ at Uni....plus 68000 and 6800 micors to.....
bit rusty at c now, last c i did was some ms-mail utils
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #31 on: 12 January 2009, 21:59:40 »
Think there's a zx printer knocking around somewhere upstairs, complete with a roll of that tinfoil bog paper it printed on.
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« Reply #32 on: 12 January 2009, 22:02:58 »
lol....the thermal paper.....marvelous stuff.

Used to put sheets of it on the girls chairs at uni and over about half an hour it would give an imprint of thier arse.....what a sad life we led at the time!
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« Reply #33 on: 12 January 2009, 22:03:22 »
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more than 10 years under unix  another rusty one here!
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« Reply #34 on: 12 January 2009, 22:13:26 »
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more than 10 years under unix  another rusty one here!

C/C++ is all I've done for too long. Oh, and a bit of piddling about with PICs and AVRs.

I remember my Dad printing out the Christmas card labels on my ZX Printer. What an honour it must have been receiving such a Christmas card! Assuming it didn't get too hot at the sorting office, of course!

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« Reply #35 on: 12 January 2009, 22:14:49 »
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more than 10 years under unix  another rusty one here!

C/C++ is all I've done for too long. Oh, and a bit of piddling about with PICs and AVRs.

I remember my Dad printing out the Christmas card labels on my ZX Printer. What an honour it must have been receiving such a Christmas card! Assuming it didn't get too hot at the sorting office, of course!

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sinclairs paper was so sensitive, if you touch it, it used to leave thumbprints....
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« Reply #36 on: 12 January 2009, 22:27:02 »
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more than 10 years under unix  another rusty one here!

C/C++ is all I've done for too long. Oh, and a bit of piddling about with PICs and AVRs.

I remember my Dad printing out the Christmas card labels on my ZX Printer. What an honour it must have been receiving such a Christmas card! Assuming it didn't get too hot at the sorting office, of course!

Kevin
sinclairs paper was so sensitive, if you touch it, it used to leave thumbprints....

You have to admire Sinclair for actually getting anything to work. When you took their stuff apart and realised how crude it was it was nothing short of a miracle that it ever worked at all.

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« Reply #37 on: 12 January 2009, 22:29:49 »
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more than 10 years under unix  another rusty one here!

C/C++ is all I've done for too long. Oh, and a bit of piddling about with PICs and AVRs.

I remember my Dad printing out the Christmas card labels on my ZX Printer. What an honour it must have been receiving such a Christmas card! Assuming it didn't get too hot at the sorting office, of course!

Kevin
sinclairs paper was so sensitive, if you touch it, it used to leave thumbprints....

You have to admire Sinclair for actually getting anything to work. When you took their stuff apart and realised how crude it was it was nothing short of a miracle that it ever worked at all.

Kevin
Sounds like a man who's had to fix a few dodgy keyboard membranes in his time there Kevin.
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« Reply #38 on: 12 January 2009, 22:31:08 »
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more than 10 years under unix  another rusty one here!

C/C++ is all I've done for too long. Oh, and a bit of piddling about with PICs and AVRs.

I remember my Dad printing out the Christmas card labels on my ZX Printer. What an honour it must have been receiving such a Christmas card! Assuming it didn't get too hot at the sorting office, of course!

Kevin
sinclairs paper was so sensitive, if you touch it, it used to leave thumbprints....

You have to admire Sinclair for actually getting anything to work. When you took their stuff apart and realised how crude it was it was nothing short of a miracle that it ever worked at all.

Kevin
The microdrives in particular are a work of art.  How the hell they worked at all is a miracle....
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #39 on: 12 January 2009, 23:29:56 »
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I did some compiling on DBase IV many moons ago.
Ah yes, the buggy, bloated, late DB that pretty much single handedly caused Aston-Tate to go tits up


Total crap - NAntucket and Fox had the right idea
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #40 on: 12 January 2009, 23:33:56 »
Done C as well - but not a lot, but enough to maintain C programs and write routines in it.

Worst languages and 4GLs, tried Progress - very restrictive, Visual Basic has a very nasty IDE.

The dbase interactive environments are rubbish compared to the compilers.

Before getting a job I learnt COBOL, BASIC, some XBASE
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #41 on: 12 January 2009, 23:34:19 »
My first PC - VIC 20 :y
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #42 on: 13 January 2009, 00:13:05 »
If Jo Public were to read this thread I am sure it would prove what they think about those who work with computers...., thing it begins with G............ :-X
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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #43 on: 13 January 2009, 08:47:02 »
I remember my Dad bringing home a number of weird and wonderful computers back in the 80s.  BBC Model B was one of them, think I managed to flog it to a local Cub Scout organisation for a couple of quid.  It had the 5.25" floppy drive and an Epson FX-80 dot matrix printer.  Always enjoyed playing Elite on it.

I see to remember he also had something very obscure: Oric Atmos.  Anyone remember that one?

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Re: 20 years a programmer
« Reply #44 on: 13 January 2009, 09:41:36 »
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I remember my Dad bringing home a number of weird and wonderful computers back in the 80s.  BBC Model B was one of them, think I managed to flog it to a local Cub Scout organisation for a couple of quid.  It had the 5.25" floppy drive and an Epson FX-80 dot matrix printer.  Always enjoyed playing Elite on it.

I see to remember he also had something very obscure: Oric Atmos.  Anyone remember that one?

Mark

Yep, one of my school mates had one of them.

I remember getting to play with an Apple Lisa sometime in the early 80's. First mouse driven GUI I met.

Also spent some time on the VAX 11/750 where my dad worked - using my BBC micro as a terminal.

My mates' Dad worked for DEC, and he had a PDP8, PDP11 and a vicrovax at home.  8-)

It's amazing that, as far as computers have come since then, you still seem to spend your life cursing them, and waiting for them to load stuff. >:(

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