I remember that cpu in my dad's Microbee computer though it only ran at 3Mhz if I believe and had 32K ROM memory. Those were the days, no storage and every "basic" program had to be typed from scratch Went to a 286 with CGA graphics - awesome! A little different to todays 3D stuff.....

Julied --
Not to date myself, but I first learned programming in Fortran on an IBM 1620 computer in college in the spring of 1965. Then in 1967 I was hired at Sears and was trained in PL/I to program on the then new System/360 Model 40 with 64K of core memory (real core memory made up of ferrite doughnuts woven into a frame by wires which performed the functions of setting, testing and turning off a bit in memory). The operating system running on the 360 was called Primary Control Program and it was a non-multitasking system. Because of the inefficiencies of PL/I, we later switched to System/360 Assembler for our applications. You want to talk about dropping a box of cards -- how about a 2000 card assembler deck! Ah -- I remember it well

Dave You will recognize:

CLC a,b
BH high
BL Low
BC 15,overyonder
MVC a(12), b
AR 6,7
XOR c,d
XOR c,d
XOR c,d
BR 14
It has faded terribly but I used to think that instruciton set and then translate for others.

Boys & Girls, Fellow team members,



CD , Congratulation man, enjoy your honeymoon!!



A Job well done to all reaching their personal six digit figures

TomWP,
A warm welcome to your team, I hope you have a pleasant time crunching with us.....

Ok team, step on it, so we into 4th place and can have a or two... three... four..

Your team mate

For the Kind Comments earlier

MOT is 90 Years old today. Should we start a new thread when we make our first century or when we make 4th?

I programmed the 6502 with a hex keypad and I've wired up a Z80 minimum system with wire wrap and a smouldering iron. Good job it didn't have a 64 bit address bus... and eproms had numbers like 2732 at this time. Cards and Paper tape were used on some CNC milling machines I used while at College.

It's just crazy that 256Mb is not enough to run a successful XP machine.

I'm contantly amazed by the sheer number crunching power we have at our disposal today. I bought my first PC when I believed they wouldn't get any faster due to the laws of physics - it was a Pentium 133hz !!! I mean that's VHF frequencies. How wrong was I - now we seem to be able to get Microwave Frequencies down the narrowest of PCB tracks without a second thought and you can buy this motherboard technology for less than £100

The first PC I remember had a 20Mb harddrive and a 286 processor - now I've got 256Mb of storage in my mobile phone and it's the size of a postage stamp.(Mini SD card) and it has a 200Mhz processor to boot. We should have a WCG client that runs on Windows CE/Mobile

I've got a pack of 10 DVD-R's on the desk costing just over £5 and I can write on them 47Gb of data.

The world is a crazy place.

Night
Dave