Posted on 08/17/2016 10:29:43 AM PDT by zeugma
Yah I remember doing this too...if I remember right they would have separate listings for separate system...I had a commodore 64 (preceded briefly by the vic 20) during the early 80's and remember the joy of hunching over the kitchen table and entering that code. And I was in hog heaven when I got the tape drive.
You know much more about it than I do.
I used to work for Bendix Avionics in Ft. Lauderdale, now called Allied Aerospace last I heard.............
MY telecom and HF experience was with the AF 1968-1976. My other telecom experience was after I graduated from Georgia Tech with a BSEE and specialized.
You’re experience is on the transmitting end and mine is on the receiving end!................
We had BOTH transmitter farms and receiver farms. The receiver farms were extensive because of the need for frequency and wavelength diversity.
Our UHF, VHF and HF systems were TWO-WAY with at least three distant locations.
Instead I ended up writing an 8080 simulator. I was able to load and run the Zapple Monitor, but couldn't get a version of BASIC to run. I must have coded a bug somewhere, but not having the source listing for the BASIC made it very impractical to troubleshoot.
My youngest grandson is one year old. I hope to last long enough to show him some of this archaic technology.
Our customers don’t do a lot of ‘transmitting’ but they do a hell of a lot of ‘listening’, er, receiving........................
Okay...I know what you do now.
XTree was absolutely the best file management program I ever used. For the type of coding we were doing at the time, you could edit individual text files from within the program, navigate all over the place - it was perfect.
Lol, naww I went full PC when I could build my own, never really looked back.
I still use it! on old computers we have...............
I'll test this one tonite.
Hahaha, cute.
You were eaten by a grue.
now, that was interesting. It's one of the reasons I like threads like this. All kinds of interesting nibblets of information out there amongst Freepers!
You are a youngster. I used 8” floppy disk when DSDD was 512k buyes.
Only 8 inchers that I was exposed to was on DECs. But like the punchcards and tapes, I never owned a machine that used them - it was always someone else’s hardware. And I never could afford a Magcard.
These kids do not know such old technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1e-QJotL4
I opened my own computer consulting business in 1983 with a brand spanking-new IBM PC with 2 360k Floppies (5.25in), a 10MB Hardcard Drive (PCI Slot) and MS-DOS 2 and a green phosphor monitor. WOW!
My most useful tool was Borland’s Sidekick TSR - a swiss army knife utility that was a calendar, notepad and other apps that could be bounced in and out of while working on another program. Main job was writing dBase and Lotus 1-2-3 applications. Later used Clipper to compile the dBase for speed and security.
Quit the business when I realized that I had 2 silent partners, the IRS and state taxing authorities. They never helped out but boy, did they want tax returns and money. Somewhere along the line, I misfiled paperwork about paying myself and the IRS & state wanted past due unemployment taxes. UGH!
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