Phoenix.pm: Curmudgeons [Was Re: SNOBOL]

[Tim Ayers]

Scott Walters wrote:
 > So I often feel old but I feel a little less old when
> someone else out-olds me ;)

Ooo. I love this game. :-)

My first computer, a Radio Shack "Color Computer," had 20K of RAM. 
Upgrades I made to it over the next couple years, in order, were 
cassette tape storage, a 300 baud modem and then 8K more of RAM. Man, 
was I set up then. ;-) This was 1981-1984 or so.

What a blast I had with that computer, teaching myself to program in 
BASIC. This computer was very good at graphics for the time. I wrote so 
many dorky little programs: 3D cube rotations, rotations of 2 variable 
equations around the Z axis, a slot machine simulation, pong-style 
games, and lots of graphs for trig, calculus and differential equations. 
It was sure nice to check your homework with a little home made program 
that could plot out a detailed isocline field in a minute or so.

Hope you have a very nice day, :-)
tim, who's waiting for Bill's dad's stories of punch cards and paper 
tapes. I remember going to my father's office as a child and playing on 
the punch card machines for their IBM mainframe the size of a 
refrigerator with 4K of RAM that was leased for $1,000 a month. This was 
in 1970 before the big time inflation!