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[MossRoad]

The first computers I was paid to work on were PDP-11's, VAX's, SUN, and then DEC Alpha's, running various flavors of VMS and UNIX. Then we were forced into Windows h3ll.... :laughing:

 

[bunyip]

Used to use some software for tracking from Unix (late 80's), was always crashing and became very frustrating, when you started the computer the message was 'Designed by Unix', I maintained that they didn't spell it properly....

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Pdp11 was one of my first to write programs for.

 

[MossRoad]

Pdp11 was one of my first to write programs for.

The first programming I did was machine code on 6502 processors. All numbers. It could get brutal.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The first programming I did was machine code on 6502 processors. All numbers. It could get brutal.

Did that too at the same timeframe. Still got my 6502 book.

 

[3Ts]

IBM 1130 was my first machine. Limited to 80 instructions for the 1st program to load the programs that followed. Self modifying code was fun to write, but brutal to follow.

 

[MossRoad]

Did that too at the same timeframe. Still got my 6502 book.

In school we had an AppleII and an I/O board. We had to write the code to look at the inputs to determine if a manufactured part (a virtual cylinder) was:
- too large, eject to re-machine bin
- too small, eject to scrap bin
- within tolerance, eject to good bin

Sounds simple enough. But things like that didn't exist much in factories at the time. It was cutting edge technology. :laughing:

 

[Oldpath05]

Mine shows the life that I was living when I first went online; travelling around the northeastern states cruising timber and doing other forestry work, making decent money and not staying in one place very long. I keep it as a reminder that sometimes you really don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.

Now this is a joke - Jstpssng. Soooo- the missing letter is an "A". That's good to know. God - I'm funny, aren't I.

For some reason today after going through some post I started thinking, whats with all these User Names, they make no sense........So I google it hoping someone already started a thread and was curious like I was, then I found it. WOW some of you guys are deep and must like english algebra, but some are really easy like (Dodgeman), even I can figure that one, but then again I still had to google some User name descriptions, and a couple I'm still stuck on so I'll start with my northern neighbor. oosik said add an A, will I did and still dont get it, I never was good at Wheel of Fortune and cant stand Jeopardy.

And oosik my wife also like cribbage, she's pretty good at to, probably only one of the few games that teach math, must be why I dont care for it because I'm no good at math,,,,2+2=22..........

My user name is found in every post at the bottom......................

 

[DrRod]

I was an adjunct professor at a couple of universities for about 18 years and given that I was younger [and arguably cooler] than the usual faculty the students started calling me by my first name with the Dr title in front. [plus my last name is not long but is still a little difficult to pronounce] It just stuck and even now there are friends, business associates, and family members who just know me as DrRod.

 

[cqaigy2]

The first programming I did was machine code on 6502 processors. All numbers. It could get brutal.

RCA 1802, hexadecimal.