August 5, 20196 yr Commercial Member hahahaha! Shout out to all the dinosaurs here! Not sure if I should be sad or happy for having missed that wonderful era of punch cards. My first experience programming was Turbo Pascal on a 80386SX with 8MB(?) extended RAM - and it was a "laptop". 😮 Do you remember these things (found through a google search)? www.wing42.com
August 15, 20196 yr On 8/5/2019 at 2:28 PM, GMVitus said: hahahaha! Shout out to all the dinosaurs here! Not sure if I should be sad or happy for having missed that wonderful era of punch cards. My first experience programming was Turbo Pascal on a 80386SX with 8MB(?) extended RAM - I had a 386SX/20. I can't remember how much ram it had. 4 megs maybe. Not much. It was a step up from the Apple //e I had before that. It had 128k of ram. Friend had a TRS-80 so that brings back memories. Any of you have an Odyssey game console by chance? When I started college in 1991 they were still teaching COBOL -- it was the last semester for it. You had to upload your programs to a server, where they were compiled, if I'm remembering it correctly. I saw a lot of change in comps at that time -- by the time I was a senior they had html classes and the web had become a little more mainstream. When I started it was telnet and usenet groups, no browser. Mosaic browser was a wonder when I saw it for the first time. On topic. I took classes in Modula-2, QBASIC, Applesoft BASIC, Turbo Pascal, C, COBOL, and Visual Basic. SQL also, but that wasn't exactly the same. Anyway, I've pretty much forgotten them all. 😀 Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
August 15, 20196 yr School - Basic on some HP Mini using Cards w/ Pencil - Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, Assembler and C on some IBM (Cobol on Cards) - Assembler, ADA and some crazy language where you wrote a whole program on one line on a Unix Box (PDP/11??) Home - Basic / Forth on TI-99/4A - C++ on IBM OS/2 - A bunch of stuff on PC's IRL - Cobol / JCL, ABAP/4, Natural/Adabas on IBM 370 - C#, C++, Javascript .... on PCs Just started playing with Lua for hooking up hardware to P3D, jury is still out on that one.
August 15, 20196 yr Fortran IV on Data General SuperNova, serial #4.. Edited August 15, 20196 yr by Bert Pieke Bert
August 27, 20196 yr Turbo Pascal, C, Delphi, Basic , VBasic, Os400 (RPG?), Assembly ofcourse! Edited August 27, 20196 yr by adino
October 13, 20196 yr Commercial Member I'm a late starter... real late, ha! I just design and if I need to automate somthin' I just learn the language as needed. Last couple of years have been vbscript, JAVA, and now Python. Whatever works to get the job done. Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
October 20, 20196 yr Sinclair BASIC on the ZX81 6502 assembler and Commodore BASIC on Commodore VIC-20, 64 and Pet. 6502 assembler and BBC BASIC on the Acorn Electron and BBC Model B Borland Turbo C on MS DOS Had a life for 10 years or so... C++ but now mostly C#.NET and .NET Core in Microsoft land, with the prerequisite amount of Perl, PHP. JS and whatever else gets thrown at me. It's all still 1s and 0s and I absolutely believe that the early years of 6502 programming still help me every single day as a full time software engineer.
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