Good old time good new times For my concern I start by drawing my own board based on a 6800 chip. From Motorola specs nothing else... We had to load our Operating System and to code using assembly language. First program was a Go Game.It start then to have some specialized newspapers where we found some good information. Then we was able to use some Os names Flex and we got basic...and C language later.
No hard disk, no floppy disk : music tape with some modem like system to record and to read.... At that time professional side was PDP11 at Digital and some other IBM staff with Huge 5Mo (Yes Mega Bytes) hard disks... Then IBM PC arrived with DOS and then I succed to get Unix on PC (with 64 Ko Memory and floppy disk. etc.... And now we work on Android and would like to get somebody to look after or work.... But any way we enjoy a lot and we will for a while. Andre On May 6, 7:17 pm, baldmountain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nah, probably about the same age. The TRS80 was my dad's. (He liked > gadgets. :) ) I didn't see anything like a PDP-11 until I was a > teaching assistant in grad school for a machine architecture course. > (I learned PDP-11 assembly language in about 3 days so I could start > correcting homework and work in the lab.) I did my thesis project, (a > Fortran simulation of a fast Raleigh fading communications channel) > using a Commodore 64 connected through a 300 baud modem to a CDC Cyber > mainframe at the University. I was a EE major and didn't really start > programming until I was out of school for a few years. I wanted to be > a Radar engineer but that didn't work out. > > And nah, I'm sure I'm not the oldest. Just reminiscing a bit about the > old days. The only thing I feel like I missed out on was not getting > the chance to work on a Lisp Machine... > > On May 6, 11:29 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Baldmountain, > > I don't know if you are older from a more affluent background, or > > actually younger. All through undergrad we used punch cards submitted > > to the data center wrapped in rubber bands. The punch card machines > > were hidden in stairwells around campus. Terminal time was too > > expensive for our department... The National Labs were more > > sophisticated – batch processing through modeling programs... but > > surprisingly a summer job at a start up was even better. We were doing > > a networked instrumentation system for nuclear power plants: > > Instrumentation carts polled by PDP-11s reporting to redundant VAX > > 11780s driving graphical displays that communicated state information > > to the control room... I think about the same time an economics > > teacher from high school was using a Tandy or TRS 80 to predict > > football opponents' play calling tendencies based on game context: > > down, distance, clock,... Anyway, I don't think you are the oldest. > > > Ed > > > On May 6, 9:12 am, baldmountain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The prizes are nice, but that is not what it's about. It's a new > > > platform to explore that is not Windows. With the BeOS it was about a > > > new OS designed using the latest software engineering techniques > > > rather than as a mutation of an OS designed in the 70s for a 8 bit > > > microprocessor. I love platforms. I love to learn about them and take > > > them apart to figure out how all the pieces fit together. The best way > > > to do this is to build something using the platform. I wasn't planning > > > on submitting anything to the ADC but one thing lead to another and > > > the app I started to explore Android turned into something usable so I > > > submitted it. The same thing happened with the BeOS. > > > > On May 6, 9:34 am, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Why don't you go mainstream rather then with an unknown operating > > > > system? Only reason I'm with this new operating system is because of > > > > the cash prices. Although, now that I look at it my chances are quite > > > > slim if not nil.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
