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[misi]

Completed!!!
30 days to register...

Can go to the City now!!!
PHP here am I !!!

 

[biggles]

The harddisk's light is just blinking,doesn't want to work hard...

That's how I feel a lot of the time.

 

[misi]

That's how I feel a lot of the time.

I downloaded Basic now.
40MB only.
Unzipped:400MB.
I do know now that why my harddisk stopped yesterday with that huge download...

 

[misi]

This is horrible(C++ )!
I cannot run my program...There I could not find how to compile-execute
my program!
I give up ATM... Maybe tomorrow I will have a look again...

 

[biggles]

This is horrible(C++ )!
I cannot run my program...There I could not find how to compile-execute
my program!
I give up ATM... Maybe tomorrow I will have a look again...

Real programmers use Visual Basic.

 

[misi]

Real programmers use Visual Basic.

Real programmers with experience use Quick Basic.

 

[Cheeky Chef]

24 years ago, I was programming using MBASIC and maybe CBASIC ?...
Been so long, I forgot how to do it..

 

[biggles]

24 years ago, I was programming using MBASIC and maybe CBASIC ?...
Been so long, I forgot how to do it..

Did they have computers back then?

 

[misi]

Did they have computers back then?

No, their name was:Commodore64,AppleI,AppleII,IBM PC...

Didn't need CD,DVD... only a tape recorder...
Good old times...
You were only a baby emu that time,couldn't remember such wonderful thinks...

 

[nommic]

I've programmed a robot in BASIC before, does that count?

 

[biggles]

I've programmed a robot in BASIC before, does that count?

Have you got one of those Lego robots or better yet, an Imperial Walker (from the Star Wars series)?

 

[Cheeky Chef]

Did they have computers back then?

It was the start of when computers became common place in smaller companies. The place I worked in designed and built computers and we programmed them for the business they were to be used in. BASIC was quite new and also programmers used fortran and cobal and pascal..
Storage was on 8" floppies and hard drives had not yet been seen.. Tape drives were still common..
The first word processor I used was WordStar...

 

[misi]

The first word processor I used was WordStar...

Control this and Control that....
A few years ago I wanted to get one.
Gone forever...

 

[biggles]

It was the start of when computers became common place in smaller companies. The place I worked in designed and built computers and we programmed them for the business they were to be used in. BASIC was quite new and also programmers used fortran and cobal and pascal..
Storage was on 8" floppies and hard drives had not yet been seen.. Tape drives were still common..
The first word processor I used was WordStar...

You must be older than I thought, Chef.

Ahhh... WordStar... who could forget those heady days when PC Mags did annual reviews of the best 100 word processors. Word Star would often come out on top.

 

[biggles]

Control this and Control that....
A few years ago I wanted to get one.
Gone forever...

The Control-K codes. I remember them from WordStar and also X-Tree Gold.

 

[Cheeky Chef]

X tree Gold... I used that when windows 3.11 was new... ( also when I bought my first PC )

 

[biggles]

X tree Gold... I used that when windows 3.11 was new... ( also when I bought my first PC )

You used X-Tree under Windows?

Sacrilege!

Give me DOS, or give me death.

 

[Cheeky Chef]

I have forgotton a lot of the ol' DOS commands... been using windows too long !!

 

[biggles]

I have forgotton a lot of the ol' DOS commands... been using windows too long !!

Sshh.. same here.

 

[misi]

I have forgotton a lot of the ol' DOS commands... been using windows too long !!

Ok I can remind you for one.
format c:
Don't try it for God's sake...