MG Software Lawsuit

[NLMGSAN]

Mine was the Z80. Monitor was a huge black and white tube, wooden casing and huge speakers in it for sound. Myomy, did my neighbours complain when I was playing a game...

 

[EVentropy]

Mine was pre-DOS

config.sys
autoexec.bat
I miss that..............err, not really!
But they do keep hiding the command prompt these days.

The Atari I don't miss.

 

[decrep]

No disk, no DOS.

Machine language then extended basic for me.

 

[siteguru]

I used to program this way:

 

[decrep]

Can you still run that?

 

[siteguru]

As in ... can I still do it? No, too much water under too many bridges to remember how to do it. But I'm sure I could learn it again.

I don't have any relevant equipment to do it with now though.

 

[Anon70]

As in ... can I still do it? No, too much water under too many bridges to remember how to do it. But I'm sure I could learn it again.

I don't have any relevant equipment to do it with now though.

Last time I used paper tape as a storage device for code input was on an ICL 2960

 

[nogbad]

No disk, no DOS.

Machine language then extended basic for me.

It's always lovely to see The Four Yorkshiremen sketch running in real life... ;-)

I've added a link for those too young to get the reference (You lucky, lucky people)

 

[siteguru]

"I dreamed of having a shoebox to live in!" etc.

 

[Everest]

FWIW, my first program was written in Fortran on paper in school, sent off, converted to punched cards and put through a PDP11 at the local tech college. Then we got back the printout in the next computing lesson the following Friday. Invariably with a message like LINE 20: FOR3852: syntax error. With a 7-day compilation turn-around time, it certainly concentrated the mind to get your programs right on the first attempt!

 

[nogbad]

"I dreamed of having a shoebox to live in!" etc.

A keyboard? You had a keyboard? Luxury!

 

[decrep]

My favourite computer was HEX, developed and made by Ponder Stibbins, --it had "ants inside"
I'm sure all the intelligent people here have heard of him.

Hex

Hex is an elaborate, Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg-esque, magic-powered computer housed at Unseen University (UU) in the city of Ankh-Morpork, in author Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. The main structure works through the movements of large numbers of ants through the complex pipes and tubing...

discworld.fandom.com

 

[GaryMG4]

Last time I used paper tape as a storage device for code input was on an ICL 2960

Never had that on the 2900s we used, but it was the data entry method on the Burroughs B2500 that I worked on before going to ICL. We often ended up reading then repairing the tape with special 'lick and stick' tape manually punching the holes through a perspex block.

 

[tsedge]

Tape? Blooming luxury! We used to program by chiselling tracks out of blocks of copper with nothing but our bare hands and teeth and building a wood fire to make solder...etc...etc...

 

[siteguru]

Copper? You had copper? We had to chisel tracks out of blocks of granite.