Those were the days my friend

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gshingles wrote:

> I encountered all of the problems you mentioned using GOTO, so I gradually
> started using GOSUB
> thinking that might alleviate some of those shortcomings since you didn't need
> to know which
> line to GOTO back to. That's when I first learned what a stack overflow was
> smile

My little RCA 1802 computer with it's toggle switchs and hex keypad had so
little memory that some of a program would be stored in video memory.  You
could actually watch the bits flip as the program was run.

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