1. [OT]Early Computer Experiences (Was: Re: Writing an assembler)
Alan Oxley wrote:
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> "adventure"... brings back memories for me too.
> It was on my employers os/390 mainframe years ago!
>
> Something to do while awaiting the next tape mount or printer jamb.
> I even have the "adventure" source somewhere.
>
> Ahhh... nostalgia isn't what it used to be... ;))
Thanks for the assembler info, guys. Unfortunately I still think that's all a
bit above my head.
On the subject of Adventure, I first played it on an Apple II+ in 1981 or 1982.
Heh. I never did finish that game! But I've been in love with computers ever
since.
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j.
2. Re: [OT]Early Computer Experiences (Was: Re: Writing an assembler)
Well I must be older that all of you. I wrote asm on an IBM 360 and fortran
before that on an IBM 7040.
3. Re: [OT]Early Computer Experiences (Was: Re: Writing an assembler)
- Posted by Dick Holmes <d.holmes at aristoslogic.com>
Feb 22, 2007
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Last edited Feb 23, 2007
George Walters wrote:
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> Well I must be older that all of you. I wrote asm on an IBM 360 and fortran
> before that on an IBM 7040.
Hmm. Early programming experiences. Bendix G15D, anyone? PDP-5? IBM 1401?
And as a convolution to the 'Writing an Assembler' topic, I once wrote an
assembler for a mini in COBOL. It was painful, but it was not nearly as
painful as reading in the native assembler via a paper tape reader on a
model 33 Teletype....
Dick Holmes
4. Re: [OT]Early Computer Experiences (Was: Re: Writing an assembler)
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
Feb 22, 2007
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Last edited Feb 23, 2007
Dick Holmes wrote:
> Hmm. Early programming experiences. Bendix G15D, anyone? PDP-5? IBM 1401?
I used to write in AutoCoder on the IBM 1401. This was a type of high level
assembly language. That was back in the 1970s. Can't remember anything about it
now 
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Derek Parnell
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5. Re: [OT]Early Computer Experiences (Was: Re: Writing an assembler)
Jason Gade wrote:
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[snip]
>
> > Ahhh... nostalgia isn't what it used to be... ;))
>
> Thanks for the assembler info, guys. Unfortunately I still think that's all
> a bit above my head.
>
> On the subject of Adventure, I first played it on an Apple II+ in 1981 or
> 1982. Heh. I never did finish that game! But I've been in love with
^^^^^^^^^
Do you mean that then wonderful game of "Loderunner" ? ;))
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duke
SW of Calgary - near the Rockies
http://www.rootshell.be/~perlster/euphoria/
6. Re: [OT]Early Computer Experiences (Was: Re: Writing an assembler)
duke normandin wrote:
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> Jason Gade wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > > Ahhh... nostalgia isn't what it used to be... ;))
> >
> > Thanks for the assembler info, guys. Unfortunately I still think that's all
> > a bit above my head.
> >
> > On the subject of Adventure, I first played it on an Apple II+ in 1981 or
> > 1982. Heh. I never did finish that game! But I've been in love with
> ^^^^^^^^^
> Do you mean that then wonderful game of "Loderunner" ? ;))
> --
> duke
> SW of Calgary - near the Rockies
> <a
> href="http://www.rootshell.be/~perlster/euphoria/">http://www.rootshell.be/~perlster/euphoria/</a>
Nope. I meant Adventure (or some clone of it). I played a couple of more action
type games but most of them were text-based and they were [b]not[/b] Zork.
I don't think I ever did play Loderunner on the Apple II. I did play a little
bit of Karateka and Wizardry. Oregon Trail, of course!
I remember checking out all of the BASIC programming books I could get my hands
on. Typing in and running Eliza. I remember Compute! and Compute!'s Gazette with
type-in program listings in the magazines.
Ah, those were the days!
--
"Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."
--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
--M. Haertel
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
j.
