TRS-80 Model III, where art thou........rhm said:I think we should save the 8 bit stories for our therapists or somethingfiguerres said:*snip*
I bought my first PC in 1990 and soon after bought Borland Turbo C++ v1 - although I only used it as a C compiler. It was a revelation - a nice multi-file text editor with a built in source debugger. It was a great place to learn your first C because the API surface wasn't much bigger than the classic libC - I feel sorry for anyone learning to program for the first time in a modern environment.
Borland started to lose out with their C/C++ products pretty early on in the Windows growth cycle. The last version I bought was Borland C++ v4 in about 1994. I wrote a few programs for Windows 3.1 using Borland's OWL (object-windows library), which was easier to get to grips with than MFC and more object oriented, but a bit bloaty on the memory front. Microsoft started licencing MFC to other compiler vendors which marginalised OWL. Then ofc they came out with Visual Studio and that's what got most programmers using Microsoft compilers instead of Borland or Watcom.
I can still remember the approximate date, weather, exact location and occasion of the first computer I sat behind and some of the company that was with me.
And, oh, my very first program:
10 Print "H"
20 Print " a"
30 Print " l"
40 Print " l"
50 Print " o"
60 Goto 10
Clever, I know.
Well, I mean, I had learned of the very existence of programming 2 minutes before that and wanted to outsmart the other kids that were as new to it at least somewhat. Two lines didn't do it for me
