Strange Phone Call

[Holland]

We are old...

My first was the Osbourne 1. 4" screen, that was FOUR INCHES, kiddies. No hard drive, two floppy drives. It was ~portable, folded up into a suitcase, weighted 29 pounds. Came with SuperCalc, an early spreadsheet. I carried that sucker to many a client's office. That was ok, but carrying the 9-pin dot matrix printer and a stack of tractor feed paper was the pits.

Christopher Mewhort, EA, CGA
Kailua, HI 96734

where there is no sign of snow, the temp is a nice 80 degrees, and there is a nice breeze coming in over the beach.

[sea-tax]

I guess you all are old That is great though I would wear it like a badge of courage.
I on the other hand only go back as far as the comador 64 I think it was.

[Joe Btfsplk]

programming the TRS 80

I got a TRS 80 and after I learned 'basic', I found that my company had something they called VS basic. I was soon the leading basic programmer in the Reguatory and Compliance Group. My most elaborate program was one in which you input the mol percent of a gas sample from a chromatograph analysis and it would calculate the GPM for inerts, methane, ethane, butane, propane and pentanes plus content, the BTU and the 26# RVP gasoline content. The results usually agreed with the purchasers reports but the boss liked for us to recalculate it (which was virtually impossible without the computer program. The progam also gave the BTU both on a 'dry' basis and a fully saturated with water vapor basis--and purchasers often paid on the wrong basis, resulting in significant dollar differences.

[BOB W]

Well.......

I got a TRS 80 and after I learned 'basic', I found that my company had something they called VS basic. I was soon the leading basic programmer in the Reguatory and Compliance Group. My most elaborate program was one in which you input the mol percent of a gas sample from a chromatograph analysis and it would calculate the GPM for inerts, methane, ethane, butane, propane and pentanes plus content, the BTU and the 26# RVP gasoline content. The results usually agreed with the purchasers reports but the boss liked for us to recalculate it (which was virtually impossible without the computer program. The progam also gave the BTU both on a 'dry' basis and a fully saturated with water vapor basis--and purchasers often paid on the wrong basis, resulting in significant dollar differences.

Well that will put us all to shame......................

All I learned to do was use symbols to add, subtract,,multiply and divide.

[ChEAr$]

The list

that distinctive sound of digital data on playback!!

Doug

Now you put me in mind of a particular program I had written to generate
a client "list". Name of program was "List.bas"
One day riding along in car with son, I had a bunch of tapes and told son
to get the Liszt tape so we could listen to it. You know the one he picked
by now of course.

that "distinctive sound of digital data on playback" did NOT sound like a piano!

Holiday ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

[ChEAr$]

was it

Probably long before your time. Ha! It was the most popular pc computer that pre-dated the first IBM-PC. I bought a competitor pc, name I don't remember, running CPM operating system and then switched to the "new" DOS from Microsoft the year it came out. My PC had one "single" sided floppy with a green display and 64k memory (thats "k" not meg or gig).

A Commodore? Or. that first portable computer which has a fold out keyboard?
Key... Kay pro!

Holiday ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA
who still has his first computer; called an adding machine with tape. With handle