[DUG] You say potatoe I say....

[Robert martin]

Wrote my first basic app for it (ZX81) in primary school.  It was a 
guess this number game (higher / lower).  A rich friend had one, he even 
had the 4k upgrade and the thermal printer.  This printed on silver 
paper the same width as a EFTPOS receipt. 

(32 this year) - Old married man with Children (1) and an XBOX.


Rob Martin
Software Engineer

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Wild Software Ltd



Dave Jollie wrote:

>You guys aren't very old. I started with a Sinclair ZX80 with 1k RAM and
>4K rom. I think the clock speed was pretty low too. However, someone
>managed to code space invaders into 1K and that was my favourite game.
>It had chunky graphics in black and white and was pretty much the first
>personal computer that was affordable for a teenager like me. It saved
>code to cassettes and had a jelly keypad. Awesome days!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
>On Behalf Of Guy.Brown at sungard.com
>Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 11:26 a.m.
>To: delphi at ns3.123.co.nz
>Subject: RE: [DUG] You say potatoe I say....
>
>I don't think we win by being older.  Quite the opposite in fact.
>
>Anyhow, since I am old I am going to ramble on about the good old days
>for a bit (it's what old fellas do after all)
>
>When I was getting my computing qualification we had to do a module
>called introduction to computers or something along those lines.  In the
>first week we where taught dos commands.  Dir /w, del *.* /s, Format c:
>and the like.  There was a pretty, but fairly vacant girl sitting next
>to me in the first week.  Half way through the lesson she exclaimed
>loudly "I just don't get it, what's the point of DOS!".  This was in the
>start of the Win 95 days where windows was still just a shell on top of
>good old DOS.  I guess it's a fair question, but it was kind of like
>asking a chicken what the point of eggs was.
>
>Guy 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
>On Behalf Of tracey
>Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 10:57 a.m.
>To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
>Subject: RE: [DUG] You say potatoe I say....
>
>Ok james and guy.. you win.. experienced it is then (I'm older than both
>of you but only came into the game in the PII years :)
>
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