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OOP: Is it them or us?
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25/05/1999 23:50:05
 
 
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25/05/1999 23:34:38
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Visual FoxPro
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00221296
Message ID:
00222789
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Radio Shack sold something like that in the mid-70's with analog logic gates and whatnot.....damnfino the name.

>Ok, you dinosaurs, I challenge you with that: does anyone remember those 4 bit machines that were programmed using a small board with a lot of holes and the instructions were "written" with those small black somethings (they looked like mushrooms, but I don't know their name in English)? :)
>
>Vlad
>
>>Yes,
>>
>>256 BYTES. You programmed each byte by assigning bits and then Store or Execute or...I forget....but it was tedious.
>>
>>>256 bytes? :)
>>>
>>>Vlad
>>>
>>>>Mid-70's meant to me Pong and, a year or so later, the Altair with the big blue box, toggle switches and 256 bytes of memory.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks for "validating" me ... I remember that old "green card"! Don't know if I still have it or not tho. < g >
>>>>>
>>>>>I think John and Vlad must be thinking of later years, not the mid-'70s. We must be OLD!! < g >
>>>>>
>>>>>Bonnie
>>>>>
>>>>>>My vintage "green card" refers to it as 360/Assembler.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jim N
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John Koziol, ex-MVP, ex-MS, ex-FoxTeam. Just call me "X"
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter Thompson (Gonzo) RIP 2/19/05
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