lol. One of these, you mean? Unfortunately, I actually remember them although in my defence they were heading towards being obsolete.
Thanks for the image MC. I'm not a programmer obviously, but did write a few programs that got punched out on a stack of those cards and then run through the IBM, and then repeated til the bugs were gone. Before that about 1965 I also wrote a few in Fortran using a teletype machine. The program was punched on tape and teletyped to a Univac computer for processing. Seems like the dark ages compared to now.
Oh, you're taking me back now, although not as far as you. Did you do the typed in BASIC bit on the zx81? Or the Spectrum?
There were no PCs then. I had to send out programs to someone at a mainframe sight, on hand written pages or by teletype. Program results came back by mail. A slow process. I don't think Basic existed til much later.
Yes, BASIC was a much later development. I just wondered if you moved on when the first home computers, i.e. the zx81, came out. I remember sitting for about 4 hours typing away (think it was a zx81, might have been a Spectrum) just so I could watch the letter 'J' float about the screen and 'pick up' other letters. Still, it was good practice since it was actually 2 hours typing and 2 hours trying to figure out why it wouldn't work due to a syntax error (missing comma) lol.
lol... thanks god I never had the chance to use one of those... I will file like archaic! No offense of course Cheers!
I'd love to play around with a punched card system. My earliest computer experience was with BASIC in the early 80s. Light years away from punched cards. I feel young again
It was quite awhile later, 1980-82 when I bought a neat little machine, the Radio Shack Color Computer. It had a button on the top that read '4K' - not sure what memory that referred to, rom?/ram? - doesn't figure! I used a tape recorder for files and programs and it could be programmed in Basic and did word processing and played games.