Problem with Amtrak

[AmtrakBlue]

Assembly! Assembler (hey, it's been a looooong time since I've been in college).

College had Apple computers that utilized a ?5? disk disk drum. Then got a VM machine. (or did I get that wrong too? )

Learned COBOL, Pascal, and who knows what else. Never did use any of these in my work life. Learned some ?Mark IV? and DB2 at work, but never got to use those either (was laid off ). Eventually, I learned MS Access and VBA which eventually lead to learning VB which I use now. Getting ready to delve into SQL Lite (because the company does not want to let us get SQL Server - that's the Biz Analysts fight, not mine).

 

[PRR 60]

My first computer was an IBM PC (with no hard drive). I was well out of college when I got it. I learned Fortran IV in college on main frames. One of my first summer jobs was key punching. My first hand held/battery operated calculator in college was a Bowmar and it cost $60 (and the functions were pretty limited).

My first calculator was a TI SR-10. It not only could add, subtract, multipy and divide, it could also do squares and (wait for it.... ) square roots! HUGE. Worth every penny of $99 in 1973. Adjusted for inflation, that's $513 today. Yikes!

 

[AmtrakBlue]

Me thinks this thread has been hijacked.

 

[Trainmans daughter]

Me thinks this thread has been hijacked.

It beats talking about periods!

 

[the_traveler]

Me thinks this thread has been hijacked.

A thread on a computer website hijacked by talk of ...... COMPUTERS! (Who would a thunk it! :giggle: )

 

[AmtrakBlue]

Me thinks this thread has been hijacked.

It beats talking about periods!

That's true.

 

[hessjm]

My 1st personal computer? It was an IBM PC, no hard drive with 2 full height 320Kb floppies in it!

My 1st hands on computer was an IBM 360 model 30 using Hollerith cards (AKA 5081's - computer cards 9 edge on the bottom, 12 edge on the top!) for input. Always number your cards in case they were dropped - much like Foghorn Leghorn, who kept his feathers numbered! Another trick to reassemble a dropped deck of cards was to use a marker and draw a diagonal line across the top to reassemble the mess.

My first and favorite language was 360 Assembler, followed by COBOL, I did not like RPGII at all.

For the Geeks out there to clear a print line in Assembly language:

MVI PL,X'40'

MVC PL+1(132),PL

PL DS CL(133)

If you are going to hijack a thread, you really need to go "all in"! :giggle:

 

[Carolyn Jane]

I came late to computing...My first computer was a Tandy laptop from Radio Shack. Used DeskMate. It traveled with me to Thailand and Mongolia. I still have it, and it still works. It makes a great doorstop! CJ

 

[June the Coach Rider]

I have no idea the type of computer, but it only used key punch cards.

 

[NW cannonball]

Once I knew all the mainframe "opcodes" -- now I complain about overpriced "smart" phones.

Le plus le ---

I still like riding the trains.

 

[SarahZ]

I'm pretty sure we used BASIC in my 7th grade computer class. We used Apples, and I remember writing code that went something like:

10 Run

20 something

30 something

40 something

50 Goto 10

I don't remember many details, just the numbers. I also remember using it to "draw" my house with something like "hplot 7,10" (for coordinates maybe?) This was back in 1989, so it's fuzzy.

I had a Journalism class in the 8th grade, and we used Appleworks to type up the articles. Orange text on a black screen. Awesome.

 

[NW cannonball]

I'm pretty sure we used BASIC in my 7th grade computer class. We used Apples, and I remember writing code that went something like:
10 Run

20 something

30 something

40 something

50 Goto 10

I don't remember many details, just the numbers. I also remember using it to "draw" my house with something like "hplot 7,10" (for coordinates maybe?) This was back in 1989, so it's fuzzy.

I had a Journalism class in the 8th grade, and we used Appleworks to type up the articles. Orange text on a black screen. Awesome.

:wacko: I remember something like that -- I think? maybe?

What decade was that? What decade are we i ?

LOL - thanks -- but what decade?

 

[the_traveler]

IThis was back in 1989, so it's fuzzy.

The 1970's were even fuzzier for me!

 

[AmtrakBlue]

IThis was back in 1989, so it's fuzzy.

The 1970's were even fuzzier for me!

Hippie?

 

[SarahZ]

I'm pretty sure we used BASIC in my 7th grade computer class. We used Apples, and I remember writing code that went something like:
10 Run

20 something

30 something

40 something

50 Goto 10

I don't remember many details, just the numbers. I also remember using it to "draw" my house with something like "hplot 7,10" (for coordinates maybe?) This was back in 1989, so it's fuzzy.

I had a Journalism class in the 8th grade, and we used Appleworks to type up the articles. Orange text on a black screen. Awesome.

:wacko: I remember something like that -- I think? maybe?

What decade was that? What decade are we i ?

LOL - thanks -- but what decade?

Late 1980s. I was in 7th grade from 1988 - 1989. I was in 8th grade from 1989 - 1990.

 

[SarahZ]

IThis was back in 1989, so it's fuzzy.

The 1970's were even fuzzier for me!

Same here. I was born in January 1977, so my only memories of the 1970s are "The Muppet Show" and "Sha Na Na".

 

[the_traveler]

IThis was back in 1989, so it's fuzzy.

The 1970's were even fuzzier for me!

Hippie?

Nah, I slept thru most of the decade - and school and college! But then again, I also slept thru most of the 1980's, 1990's, 2000's and 2010's so far!

 

[crescent2]

My Aunt Flo helped program the Eniac.

 

[leemell]

My Aunt Flo helped program the Eniac.

Well, I don't quite go that far back, BUT the first machines I used were an NCR 315 and an IBM 1401, both machine language and Assembler.. The first machine I owned was an IMSAI 8080 (chief competitor to the Altair 880, the machine that Bill Gates wrote his first OS for). First handheald calculator was a Bowmar 901.

 

[jis]

My Aunt Flo helped program the Eniac.

Well, I don't quite go that far back, BUT the first machines I used were an NCR 315 and an IBM 1401, both machine language and Assembler.. The first machine I owned was an IMSAI 8080 (chief competitor to the Altair 880, the machine that Bill Gates wrote his first OS for). First handheald calculator was a Bowmar 901.

The first machine on which I did some serious programming and hacking starting in 1974, was an IBM 1130 (the academic version of the 1800 I am told), which is a generation after the 1401 and 1620 I suppose. But we did still use a 1403 Printer and 1442 card punch. Though the card reader was next gen, much faster 2501. It was such a delight to see a 1403 Printer at the Museum of Computing in Silicon Valley! Anyway on the 1130 I did both Assembler and FORTRAN IV programming.

My next big computer to hack on was the DECSystem 10 running TOPS 10 at TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) in Bombay back in 1976

I did however type in a few characters on the keyboard of a terminal attached to one of the first time sharing systems ever, the MIT Project MAC machine back in 1966 when my Dad was a Visiting Professor at MIT. Of course while doing it, I had no idea how momentous that was. Too young to realize that back then. But then again, my Dad was involved in installing and commissioning the first digital computer in India back in 1955, a BTM HEC-2M at the Indian Statistical Institute. So Computers run way back in my blood I suppose!

 

[crescent2]

OK, gals, help these guys out here.

 

[Trainmans daughter]

OK, gals, help these guys out here.

Aunt Flo! Think about it.

 

[the_traveler]

I think we all need help - BAD! :help:

 

[Ryan]

OK, gals, help these guys out here.

Aunt Flo! Think about it.

 

[the_traveler]

Or Flo from "Alice"! (I AM old! )