Vintage Computers

[The_Librarian]

Meneer van Zyl, gaan u 'n museum oopmaak?

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Teaching my son to program in Spectrum BASIC

The reasoning behind this is that he will not be able to misspell any keywords, plus there's tons of magazines that you can download for a good type-in listing

When he can do a proper program on his own, he can upgrade to C or Pascal or whatever he chose to.

I preferred BBC Basic actually

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Did anyone load GEOS on their Commodore 64's? It totally blew me away at the time.

And only the rich bastids could afford an Amiga. Still suffering trauma about that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)

 

[jannievanzyl]

Think Big Blue is to thank for that.

Indeed. When they picked the cheap 8088.

 

[jannievanzyl]

Meneer van Zyl, gaan u 'n museum oopmaak?

Ten minste by die huis. Miskien erens eendag.

Jy moet Timothy Venn se versameling sien. Hy het n aktiewe FB groep: https://www.facebook.com/groups/vintagecomputingsa/

 

[The_Librarian]

I preferred BBC Basic actually

No matter the dialect, it is a good start to learn programming, yes? Just the basics without having to worry about windoes and extra commands and the such....

 

[jannievanzyl]

No matter the dialect, it is a good start to learn programming, yes? Just the basics without having to worry about windoes and extra commands and the such....

BASIC was exactly that; a Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, designed to teach programming.

 

[The_Librarian]

BASIC was exactly that; a Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, designed to teach programming.

Thanks for the reminder Yep, you have to start somewhere.

Where did most of today's whizzkid programmers start?

 

[Hamish McPanji]

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Where did most of today's whizzkid programmers start?

Machine code

 

[jannievanzyl]

Machine code

Doubt it

Unless they learned programming on something like this: http://shalewyn.com/images/RetroComputing/MicroProfessor/microprof_open.jpg

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Doubt it

Electronics (computing) major in the UK, so we spent most of our time at low level. A lot of vhdl , modula2 after that

 

[JerryMungo]

I started with z80 assembly and Spectrum Basic... back in '83

 

[cguy]

I started with Acorn BASIC in '83. Started with asm only in '88 on x86.

 

[Stokstert]

Very interested. What you want for it?

Sorry, gone to Jannie unfortunately, he reacted first.

 

[requiem]

Sorry, gone to Jannie unfortunately, he reacted first.

Thanks for responding. That is unfortunate

 

[oldhat]

Want to part with some of them? Still looking for a nice 5150 and 5160. Got a beautiful 5155 the other day.

Will think about it and let you know...

 

[ponder]

Started with asm only in '88 on x86.

That's the worst asm, asm on the 6809 & 680x0 was a joy compared to the Intel stuff. The risc stuff was also pretty cool.

 

[cguy]

That's the worst asm, asm on the 6809 & 680x0 was a joy compared to the Intel stuff. The risc stuff was also pretty cool.

I did some MIPS assembler in the 90's, which (being RISC) was so much cleaner. Also assembler for a bunch of proprietary architectures since (including VLIW and vector architectures), where I've seen both worse and better than x86

 

[jannievanzyl]

Will think about it and let you know...

Tx!

Will drop you a PM.

 

[jannievanzyl]

That's the worst asm, asm on the 6809 & 680x0 was a joy compared to the Intel stuff. The risc stuff was also pretty cool.

Always wondered if the ultimate RISC would have only one OpCode and a NOP at that.