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

[Kyley Harris]

Well. If we have to go there...
  My first language was a form of Binary known as Howling. Howl on and Howl
off were the settings. I started programming when I was a day old. I was
given a couple of robots, (models MUM & DAD) which I soon learnt to command
via Howl. I was a fast learner. Within a day I'd learnt how to program one
of them to bring me food to wherever I was. The other one wasn't so clever,
and I had to write my longest program yet in a heavy sequence of Howl, but
finally I got that damn robot to even wipe my Ass. After a year I moved onto
assembler, which was very handy with the LEGO Logic OS.

I bet not one calculator did that.

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Phil Scadden
Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 4:09 p.m.
To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] You say potatoe I say....

> My first tech device was a Sharp programmable scientific calculator,
EL5101
> it had 48 yes 48 steps of program storage, and 5 memories.  It also had a
> wonderful LCD display and algebraic logic, eg you could enter expressions

We must be similar vintage. Mine was the wonderful TI. Similar functions but
easier than the
HP25 RPN stuff.


> And PDP-11's and VMS, fond memories.  Guess where the DIR command came
from?
> My favourite memory is of a PDP-11 that crashed running RT11 which was
real
> fast....the console was on a separate power supply and it had this message
> on it:

well I am still programming vaxen. (Have machines that will not die). I
don't have good memories of the PDP-11. The hair-raising sound on the
edge of audibility as your winchester has a head-crash. You hear you
data dying. oh and the 8in floppies. How I hated the memory managment
on those things too.

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Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232

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