The Altairs didn't have Assemblers for quite a while.
It was about the time that a little company called Microsoft started
producing them that I saw the first batch... Cobol predated this due to it's
use in Mainframes.
Though you could always play with 370 Assembly code... YUK.
-JMS
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 6:28 PM
|To: Jose M. Sanchez
|Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: RE: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback
|
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|Didn't anyone use Assembler back then? I thought that came before
|COBOL? Personally I love Assembler. So much more control, although COBOL
|does have it's good points too.
|
|--
|Mark
|
| ** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
|
|
|
|On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
|
|> How about HAND loading the boot code on the old Altair front panels EVERY
|> friggin time you wanted to start the machine via the paper tape loader...
|>
|> Or having to "role your own" drivers for Kennedy Tape drives for PDP-11's
|> because Dec did not support them...
|>
|> Punch card Job entries, submitted at night, results posted the
|next day...
|>
|> Apple III's running CPM cards... Cyber Cobol...
|>
|> APL (gasp!)
|>
|> etc... ah yes the good old days, may they rest in peace.
|>
|> Now where did I leave my portable MP3 player...
|>
|> -JMS
|>
|>
|>
|> |-----Original Message-----
|> |From: Pj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|> |Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:33 PM
|> |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|> |Subject: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback
|> |
|> |
|> |From: Using MS-DOS 6.2 (QUE book) 1993
|> |
|> |Pg. 140; pgph 5:
|> |
|> |"Hard disks have changed the most. A number of technology have come and
|> |gone as hard disks have steadily gotten larger and faster.
|Drives capable
|> |of storing more than two gygabytes(two billion bytes) now cost less than
|> |$2,500.
|> |
|> |Who remembers when 10GB cost $10,000?
|> |
|> |Pj
|> |
|>
|>
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