Gary Hildebrand wrote:
>
> I don't have the computer we loved to hate at Montana State University,
> the Xerox Sigma VII. I did APL programming with a 33ASR and acoustic
> modem (paper tape storage). Then on to real batch programming with
> those $%#$^$#%^& keypunch machines and a crappy Fortran compiler that
> bombed out when an error in ONE card was found. From these early
> experiences I grew to loathe computers, until the VIC rolled down the
> road towards me.
And now you 'loath and hate them'? :)
My gripe with the early machines is that about all that
would run on them was BASIC and cassette I/O. What small
income I had in the 1980's was never enough for a real
system as by the time you added a printer,cassette,monitor,
16k ram to the basic system you had no money left for real I/O.
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
Received on Tue Jan 29 2002 - 17:25:21 GMT