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On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 7:51 PM Nat Taylor <biob...@gmail.com> wrote: > You could try an apple ][ emulator like gsplus. Or a C64 emulator (here > is an online one: > https://c64online.com/c64-online-emulator/ ) > Those both have native BASIC right? > > You guys are all like, “Back in the day, when I was a teenager, before I > had status before I had a pager…” > https://youtu.be/qDKrJhNOygA > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 7:28 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > wrote: > >> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, Mark Phillips wrote: >> >> > In HS (several decades ago), I wrote a matchmaking program for our >> senior >> > prom that crashed the dialup GE computer (ran out of memory) we used to >> > run Basic programs. Shhh.....I resorted to secretly matching everyone >> with >> > his/her boyfriend by hand....I was considered a computer genius until >> the >> > teacher in charge of the dialup account got a call from some very irate >> > folks at GE who threatened to remove the dial up terminal and paper tape >> > reader if we ever crashed their computer again.....he had my back and no >> > one found out. lol >> >> Mark, >> >> When I did my MS at the Univ. of Illinois decades ago, I wrote a FORTRAN V >> ecosystem energy model of a lake for an ecosystem modeling course I took. >> The code filled two boxes of 80-column Hollerith cards. >> >> Toward the end of each semester we grad students needed access to the IBM >> 360's remote job terminals; my lab was in the Natural History Building and >> the nearest RJE was next door in the Chemistry Building. The CS100/101 >> students waited until the last minute to run their projects and blocked >> access to the card reader and line printer in the RJE. And we needed to >> access the 360 at the Chicago Medical campus for our research. >> >> So I'd often get a call in my lab asking me to run the model. As soon as I >> had acess to the card reader and fed in the two boxes of Hollerith cards >> it >> maxed out the S360 and locked out the RJE for a long time before printing >> output about 3 inches thick of green-bared wide line printer paper. The CS >> students gave up and went elsewhere. I killed my model job and let other >> grad students use the RJE. >> >> Grad student fun and games. >> >> Rich >> >>
