On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:47:26PM -0300, Beco wrote: > > > > On 15 October 2013 04:38, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > Beco <rcb <at> beco.cc> writes: > > > Is xtrs broken under wheezy? > > What is it anyway? A Tandy Trash 80 emulator? > > -- > Stan > > > > Hi Stan, > > Yep, its an emulator for TRS-80 ! Please, don't call it by its ugly nickname > (Trash!) :) > > I'm having lots of fun with this emulator. Today I could install a harddrive, > mind you! > It has (I believe, I need to compute it yet) 13 MB!! > > I'll put all software from various disketts I've collected in this single > file. > > Now I just need to make it boot from the HD and I don't need even the OS on > drive :0 anymore. > > As soon as I put a c compiler on it, I'll start using only my TRS-80 to work. > Bye debian! It was nice to be with you! But things evolves, you know!
Interesting use of the word "evolves" :-) > > Ahaha! I wonder what my students would do when I ask for the next assignment: > -Do a program that reads 2 numbers and calculates the average, in C. - Just > it, > teacher? - Yep. But on a TRS80. LOL. Try 3D graphics in COBOL. Or a pac-man game in Lotus-1-2-3 macros. Lots of fun. Of course, writing software is only half the fun. There's equally much fun in testing - give them the Weinberg-Myers Triangle problem! I still remember that as quite an education. They won't understand software until they know how to break it :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131015190419.GE20937@hawking
