If you only wanted to learn one language

[MaPoSquid]

@daasgrrl

[quote=“Richardm”]Thanks a lot for your help guys. I will check things out and then make a decision. I’m trying to remember some of the programming lessons I learned in college, like don’t drop your Hollerith cards cause you’ll never get them back in order again.

Ooh, punch cards. I used to get those to draw on when I was a kiddie - except once in a while a batch of 'em would have these annoying holes

We are the Computer Dinosaurs. I look forward to complaining that I remember when screens were monochromatic, disks were actually floppy and 64K was an awesome amount of memory. Wait, I’m doing it already…[/quote]
Yeah, riiiiight, you showoff. Richardm I’ll believe could remember punchcards – hell, he can probably remember Babbage replacing gears in his Engine – but I’m not going to believe for a minute that you remember anything prior to the introduction of the 486.

[daasgrrl]

@MaPoSquid

Yeah, riiiiight, you showoff. Richardm I’ll believe could remember punchcards – hell, he can probably remember Babbage replacing gears in his Engine – but I’m not going to believe for a minute that you remember anything prior to the introduction of the 486.

Computing household - I’m bummed to this day I never made it through Adventure, even when I learned you could kill the dragon with your bare hands (bastards!). I mean to dig it up from one of those archive websites one day…

Hey, my first job involved using a 386. Geez. Geek flattery

[Nam]

[quote=“elektronisk”]
Richard,
Assembly is really more suited for control systems (hardware/firmware applications) rather than straight software applications.

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[answerer]

@Richardm

I’m trying to remember some of the programming lessons I learned in college, like don’t drop your Hollerith cards cause you’ll never get them back in order again.

Or number them like we told you to, you lazy a$$

[elektronisk]

[quote=“daasgrrl”]
We are the Computer Dinosaurs. I look forward to complaining that I remember when screens were monochromatic, disks were actually floppy and 64K was an awesome amount of memory. Wait, I’m doing it already…[/quote]

But I’ll bet you don’t remember when the floppies were actually 8"! or discs in hard drives bigger than a turkey platter (maybe that’s how it got its name).

Now you’ve really started it… Did anyone else have a Sinclair? or how about the old TRS-80 with tape drive?

[MaPoSquid]

[quote=“elektronisk”][quote=“daasgrrl”]
We are the Computer Dinosaurs. I look forward to complaining that I remember when screens were monochromatic, disks were actually floppy and 64K was an awesome amount of memory. Wait, I’m doing it already…[/quote]

But I’ll bet you don’t remember when the floppies were actually 8"! or discs in hard drives bigger than a turkey platter (maybe that’s how it got its name).

Now you’ve really started it… Did anyone else have a Sinclair? or how about the old TRS-80 with tape drive?[/quote]
Yep, Sinclair ZX-80, but those were fairly modern. I have a chunk of genuine core memory – little toroids strung on wires – in storage. Used to use some homebrew machines with 8" drives back in college for a networking project – I think we got the network functioning exactly once in the whole semester.