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17 hours ago, ScottWelker wrote
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Surely then you (at least once) decided your POKE'd assembly was good-enough to execute without first saving to tape (takes too long you know)... hung the machine (or worse) and had to start all over :-/
Obviously, because saving stuff to tape was so slow and I was naturally absolutely 100% positive is was going to work just fine, this time. Most often, it didn't!
blowdart
Peek-a-boo
9 hours ago, AndyC wrote
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Obviously, because saving stuff to tape was so slow and I was naturally absolutely 100% positive is was going to work just fine, this time. Most often, it didn't!
Damned kids today have it is with "download source" from github.
vesuvius
Count Orlock
@blowdart: Been reading your book today, saved me a lot of time.
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blowdart
Peek-a-boo
57 minutes ago, vesuvius wrote
@blowdart: Been reading your book today, saved me a lot of time.
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Oh! Wow!
Indeed. If you haven't type in a eight page hex listing from a badly reproduced and barely legible dot matrix printout that inevitably contains numerous errors (some of which may or may not get "fixed" in a future magazine issue) then frankly you have no business calling yourself a programmer.
12 hours ago, AndyC wrote
*snip*
Obviously, because saving stuff to tape was so slow and I was naturally absolutely 100% positive is was going to work just fine, this time. Most often, it didn't!
Those were the days... and yet we kept that optimism. Still do. THIS TIME!! It'll work!!
Developers must be the most optimistic people on the planet. If we were realistic we'd probably have walked away.
Sven Groot
Don't worry... I'm a doctor.
@AndyC: Guess that counts me out, then. I did type in long BASIC listings from the newspaper's IT section, though. 
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
I remember typing an eight page listing from a TI-99 4/A book to make a slot machine. Also, recording a listing that was being broadcast over the radio and once, from an actual record.
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
It's fun seeing old & new tech mix... kinda like this20 minutes ago, Bas wrote
I remember typing an eight page listing from a TI-99 4/A book to make a slot machine. Also, recording a listing that was being broadcast over the radio and once, from an actual record.
19 hours ago, AndyC wrote
*snip*
Indeed. If you haven't type in a eight page hex listing from a badly reproduced and barely legible dot matrix printout that inevitably contains numerous errors (some of which may or may not get "fixed" in a future magazine issue) then frankly you have no business calling yourself a programmer.
Been there, done that. Don't miss it.
@ryanb:Here Here!! Once helped a math prof. debug code he typed in from a magazine.
He used "l" for "1" and "O" for "0"... worked just fine on his typewriter 
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