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Re: [Fot] State of F1

To: Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com>
Subject: Re: [Fot] State of F1
From: Bill Babcock <Billb@bnj.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:40:19 -0700
My first expansion chamber program too three boxes of punch card  
FORTRAN. What a pleasure it was to translate it into MBasic and store  
it on a 5 1/2" floppy disk. I later rewrote it and refined it in Turbo  
Pascal. No idea where it is now.

On Oct 23, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Tony Drews wrote:

> Very cool.  Did my first programming on a TI-99, and figured out how  
> to hook the family cassette recorder up to it to save and reload the  
> program (a crappy pac-man rip-off).  Graduated to a Kaypro  
> "luggable" using CP/M and its' awful version of Basic.  Was the last  
> year of the punch card programming class at Univ of Illinois.  Took  
> one semester of assembly language and after the interesting first 3  
> weeks of novelty decided I HATED assembly language programming.  A  
> hundred line program to sort a linked list of numbers?  Give me a  
> break!
>
> - Tony Drews
>
> At 11:20 AM 10/23/2008, Joe Curry wrote:
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