I tried to learn coding without line numbers, it looks nicer, kinda like Batch
File code, but I am so used to using GOTO & GOSUB that I stuck puting line numbers in things I wrote.
I know enuf to make me dangerous.
It was Commodore 64 BASIC for the first PC I had in March 1984.
But I went to a Radio Shack Store and typed in a program on the demo TRS-80 Module 1 there.
The prg displayed a Star pattern on the screen.
I miss the local Radio Shack Store(s).
Bought many Books and Parts to build circuits I saw to see what they did. Spent mucho $$$$$$$$'s.
Did You do that too?
Besides a AM Radio do You remember if a Crystal Radio was in the 50 in 1 kit At DuPont Manual High School I built a Crystal Radio.
Instead of the crystal and wire I got a 1N34 Diode so I wouldn't have to wiggl
the wire to find a sensitive spot on the crystal.
Being very close to WLOU 1350 I could get on the radio was WLOU.
It did better when I had it at home.
I made the crystal set in 1958.
IBM did have an office near the school , but back then their computer filled u
a room.
No, I didn't see one of those back then, I just remember the Bus going by thei
Office on 4th Street near Central Park and hearing friends at school talk abou
stuff like that.
I didn't get interested in computer(s) until a friend showed me his Commodore PET.
PET= Personal Electronic Transactor - if I remember correctly.
My friends wanted Me to get an Apple ][ like they had but I liked the cost of the C=64 better.
Apple ][ cost around $800, I paid about $550 for the C=64, Floppy Drive and 300baud Modem at K-Mart..
Back then when I bought a Program or a Game, I would make a copy on another floppy that I would use.
I didn't want to use the Original Disk because I was afraid something could happen to the original and I wouldn't be able to Run that Program/Game anymore
Corrupting a spare floppy is safer than losing the one I paid for.
(I could make a copy of the Original Disk on another blank disk).
YEP I'm CHEEP!!!!!
Although I had a friend at Church who ran GEOS , he even got a Mouse for his system.
I didn't bookmark the page, and Searching again for that device has failed. Tried searches with and without quote marks, with cat5 or Ethernet in them but
the search(s) find mostly Wi-Fi Bluetooth things, which "I" don't want.
Computing IS fun ... Nah! Sometimes
Ed
P.S.. the device I saw also may have Wi-Fi, but it didn't show a USB connected
in the illustration.
I know, The Problem is All In Ed's Head (C) TM.
The Tagline I was referring to was the one about the Steel Trap Rusted Shut. I wasn't clear in my earlier reply.
I certainly can identify with that Tagline and wish I could GRAB IT on this phone, guess I will have to turn the XP on and EDit my Tagline File.
Or maybe first search to see if it is already in there.
Today, I looked thru all of the Welcome messages to see who hassigned on. Seeing a Penguin used for your Avatar made me wonder about Your choosing a Bir
from the REAL DEEP SOUTH.
It has been years since I turned the C=64 On.
Wondering when was the last time the TI-99/4 was woke up?
It isn't a Linux penguin, just a graphic image.
I could take a photo of it with my camera and then use this phone to snap an image of the photo, then ask a friend how to attach it to a Email to You.
Ain't done that kind of stuff yet.
The graphic is cute.
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