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Willenium tugs our sleeve and says: Tell us why the past was a bit shit. You may wish to use witty anecdotes reflecting your own personal experience.
( , Thu 29 Aug 2013, 13:06)
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Ummmm ... no offence like.
( , Tue 3 Sep 2013, 14:51, 1 reply)
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No.
No offense, like.
[Edit - Plus, of course, this is the "things you are nostalgic about that turn out to be crap" QOTW, after all.]
( , Tue 3 Sep 2013, 17:26, closed)
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He'll get all cranky and start waving his qualifications about.
( , Tue 3 Sep 2013, 17:31, closed)
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I've got my dad's old Wang in the loft. I should chuck it out, but I just can't let go of it.
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( , Tue 3 Sep 2013, 19:15, closed)
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They came with a built-in dialect of BASIC and that's your lot.
CP/M? Luxury.
( , Tue 3 Sep 2013, 20:33, closed)
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The disc drive models (i.e. 664, 6128, or a DDI-1 for the 464) came with CP/M. But that said I don't know anyone who ever used ASM/MAC on a CPC.
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I tried to impress my son the other day by telling hinm that in the olden days we used to have to load programs from a tape. His response?
"What's a tape?"
I am old.
( , Wed 4 Sep 2013, 9:44, closed)
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And the answer is still 'yes'.
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It's just how it were done in them days.
Those were the really great days of programming, where you could whittle your own logic gates from lumps of coal and you could leave your back doors open at all hours of the day and night, and if you coded a bug a copper would give you a clip round the ear and nothing more was said about it, not like today, oh no, all health and safety this and Haskell compiler that, I wouldn't give a tuppeny decoupling capacitor for the lot of them, what do they know, I bet they never had to whittle their own logic gates...
( , Tue 3 Sep 2013, 20:31, closed)
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Which is where we came in.
( , Tue 3 Sep 2013, 21:45, closed)
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Plus, I dispute your sporting credentials.
Plus, they used to publish hex programs in magazines. Have you never typed in a hex dump from a magazine? No? Then I win.
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That's just a (monumentally daft) way of distributing software. Actually writing the software in raw hex is a completely different thing. For fucking idiots.
And I've written several compilers and I've met Steve Vickers so I think my sporting credentials are OK.
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Maxam 1.5 FTFW. Best assembler the CPC ever had, unless you asked the French, who all used DAMS. And some people used Roland Waddilove's RAW Assembler, which was a type-in in CWTA, because it was free.
I'm about the only person who still uses hard tabs in any open source project I contribute to, and the sole reason for that is that I learned to program on an Amstrad with 40k space for source code, and a hard tab saved five bytes.
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but only because I can't STAND repeatedly pressing the space bar.
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