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The good ole days
My first computer was the Texas Instruments ti99/4a. I chose it over the Commodore vic20, because it seemed to have better sound and graphics, and at the time there was more children's educational sof...
I learned Basic in high school in the mid-70's... on a TTY machine. Someone smart thought it might be a good idea to take it as an "elective". Was good for a lot od ASCII art printouts.
Bought a C64 when they came out so I knew what to do. The real fun came when I got my hands on a Hesmon cartridge and learned 6502/6510 assembler code (long story, but I built my own card and programmed an EPROM). My first 'project' was to build an interface to an FM audio subcarrier (SCA) demodulator/decoder that I built as a home project and the code to display/manipulate the data stream.
The 80's were fun. Been coding on various devices in various languages ever since.
MarkJFine wrote:The 80's were fun. Been coding on various devices in various languages ever since.I haven't written a line of code since 2003. I thought about going back to 'C' ( my favorite ), until I discovered I'd stupidly lost my 'C' library of functions and programs I had acquired or written myself over the years. It would probably all come back to me if I could look at that stuff.
I know! I know! "Here's your sign!" :>)>
