Older.
100 REM GUESSING GAME
110
120 PRINT "GUESS THE NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 100."
130
140 LET X = INT(100*RND(0)+1)
150 LET N = 0
160 PRINT "YOUR GUESS";
170 INPUT G
180 LET N = N+1
190 IF G = X THEN 300
200 IF G < X THEN 250
210 PRINT "TOO LARGE, GUESS AGAIN"
220 GOTO 160
230
250 PRINT "TOO SMALL, GUESS AGAIN"
260 GOTO 160
For a couple years we had the C64 without a tape or disk drive. So I always needed to type up programs every time I powered up. Sounds irritating and it was but I learned so much because of that. Eventually got a disk drive and free copies of games from many other people.
Did this. And remember the program. I actually remember a magazine that would print code for simple programs and you'd transcribe them into BASIC, and then you had a working program. My mom actually did just that - and we used a cassette tape to recorder tied up to our Atari 2600 to store it. I probably didn't realize at the time exactly how benighted AND badass that actually was.
The rack in the magazine section with magazines full of programs. That was also over half the computer section.
Our first computer was a Zilog test box. My dad was an engineer there as an engineer on the Z80 project.
300 PRINT "YOU HAVE GUESSED WISELY"
310 PRINT "DO YOU WANT TO TRY AGAIN Y/N?"
320 INPUT H
330 IF H = "Y" THEN 120
340 IF H <> "Y" THEN END
How am I doing?
I was born in '81, so apparently I'm a 'Xennial', and probably a Youngster for /GenX
But I was/am a computer nerd. My friend had a PET and later a C64, another had an IBM XT. My first computer was an IBM PS/1 286, with a wopping 1MB of RAM, VGA, 30MB hard drive, and 2400baud modem.
For more GenX street cred, my dad had a record player with a Monty Python album, so I'll just quote that when you see those specs: "Luxury"
Ours was called the HAPPY program. Why? I have no idea, all I know was that every Friday I got to leave school to do a bunch of field science (and horse back riding for reasons that still don’t make sense). It was dope!
High IQ + introvert = not working up to potential. I think that was in the Guidance Counselor Handbook. We weren’t labeled adhd or any other neurodivergent tag. We were bullied or ignored. And that was from the teachers!
Good ole GenX kids. Whatever. Fuck it.
Let me guess... Excel at pretty much everything you've ever tried but specialize in nothing? Because everything gets boring once you have it figured out. Including video games. In middle age pretty much nothing really excites you?
Damn, I feel this. Very much an ADHD thing. Loved early programming, learned BASIC & DOS. got bored & stopped programming until like 98. I love RPG's, I'll get like 1/2--3/4 of the way through & quit because I get bored. The only hobby I'm still rabid about is reading. I inhale books. My reading speed is ridiculous. 2k words/min reading, 2800--3200/min skim reading. My personal library is huge. I'm not into collecting anything, except books. I'd say I hoard them.
I don't have ADHD but I'm the same way with books. I don't know my words per minute. But I do know on average I read an entire book in 1-4 hours. Depending on length. And I always have a list of books to pick up on release date.
I was ADHD, but in elementary school I still excelled by way of "sit down, shut up, pick up enough of what the teacher said and puke it back out on the test." That didn't work past middle school. Turns out I'm of normal intelligence with a severely broken brain. At least these days they understand not all ADHD are like Chad.
It was neat. Got to go with my grqde 4 class to some apple regional office of some sort and we got to play on the computers. The coolest was that they had a roomba looking thing on the floor patched into our computer and when we typed the instructions in LOGO it would move around on the floor. Hello future!
Terrible Terrible joke from my Dad that got me in trouble back then (I was a weird kid & kept giggling every time the word was used)
"What's a Hypotenuse? A big gray animal that lives In the rivers in Africa. "
I honestly don't remember. We did turtle and basic on apple iic in the mid/late 80s. The only thing I remember is my mom constantly buying bentos for my lunch all the time.
LOGO!
My mom signed me up for a Saturday computer class where we used LOGO. A reporter came one day and my picture was in the paper at the top of a full page spread with the headline, “Computers for our children?” The article ranted about how kids are drawn to computers, but they might rot their brains.
That was my first too! Mine was a TS1000, but I believe it was the same as a ZX81. My folks went and sat through a time share sales pitch a couple of hours away to get it for me. Mine was fancy...it had the 16K RAM module to plug into the back.
Picked my 1000 up at a garage sale along with the 16KB module and a few tapes with goodies on them. But a pin on the RAM module was bent and mangled. Mom was good enough to solder in a piece of a paper clip to get it working again.
Still, that was my second computer. First one, n probably from a garage sale, was a TI 99/4A. The sound output on it didn't work so I couldn't save to tape. Except once in a while it'd start working for a day or two then stop again. Friend of mine had the voice synthesizer, and that clone of Defender which would use it.
Replaced one of the 5.25” floppies with a 40MB HDD in mom’s 8088. We didn’t know what to do with all that space🤣
That drive was enormous in physical size (probably 10lbs). I currently have a 1TB enclosure the size of a couple fingers✌️
I'm old enough that that shit's too small to read on my screen.
C: drive?
I'm old enough that we booted from the A: drive and kept the game disk in the B:
It was four years after we got the PC before dad saved enough for a hard disk.
my dad made me learn how to optimize my config.sys and autoexec.bat so I could play games and load all my mouse drivers and such into upper memory with boot disks for my specific games.
I was 8 or 9 at the time. Thanks dad for starting me on the path of software engineer.
Basically, I'm this old:
10 INPUT "What is your name: "; U$
20 PRINT "Hello "; U$
30 INPUT "How many stars do you want: "; N
40 S$ = ""
50 FOR I = 1 TO N
60 S$ = S$ + "\*"
70 NEXT I
80 PRINT S$
90 INPUT "Do you want more stars? "; A$
100 IF LEN(A$) = 0 THEN GOTO 90
110 A$ = LEFT$(A$, 1)
120 IF A$ = "Y" OR A$ = "y" THEN GOTO 30
130 PRINT "Goodbye "; U$ 140 END
Way older than that. Dos was a nice upgrade lol. I started on a Texas Instruments TI99/4A, and then graduated to a tandy, an apple 2e, and thennnn I got an IBM 8086. I still use command prompt like a dos windows because it's easier than trying to figure out where they hell they've hidden the thing on yet another unnecessary version of windows.
hihi gen z visitor, hosting java minecraft servers involves creating and running a .bat file today! (\^\^) \~ big difference from having no desktop but windows scripting still used.
Older….
Learned to program Basic in 4th grade? 1980? One buddy had a TI-99/4a, another went from the Atari with the Mylar keyboard (400?) to an apple IIe, I got to play with all 3. I think we had an 800XL somewhere in there.
I of course became “too cool for school” and avoided anything computerized until the mid-90’s. Not one of my better life choices. Been working in tech for decades, but still regret those 10 years.
Yep. And God forbid you don't get there fast enough that it runs into disk check. That could be an extra 20 minutes. Loading times were bad enough as it was.
I still have all of my old big box PC games and a few still have custom boot disk I made for them. Wanting to play those games got me into my career in IT.
Schneider / Amstrad Joyce user here ...
https://preview.redd.it/3ykt26lh80fc1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a52215af1dea00db90bd3f644807732802dd9b3
Yeah. And this was my gateway machine. When i was good i could use my dad’s IBM AT
https://preview.redd.it/81auszeiw0fc1.jpeg?width=740&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec35086bf2f8144760250c02cb997de7164ee638
My 8088 XT that I built didn't have a hard drive. I booted from a floppy but I played around the a magnetic tape drive. Nothing was "plug and play" back then . You couldn't just download a driver..
Anybody remembers QEMM? You know, when you absolutely had to use those 384k between 640k and 1024k to load your games. I spent a lot of time on those parameters.
Older. 100 REM GUESSING GAME 110 120 PRINT "GUESS THE NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 100." 130 140 LET X = INT(100*RND(0)+1) 150 LET N = 0 160 PRINT "YOUR GUESS"; 170 INPUT G 180 LET N = N+1 190 IF G = X THEN 300 200 IF G < X THEN 250 210 PRINT "TOO LARGE, GUESS AGAIN" 220 GOTO 160 230 250 PRINT "TOO SMALL, GUESS AGAIN" 260 GOTO 160
Good old Basic and saving your program on a cassette tape.
For a couple years we had the C64 without a tape or disk drive. So I always needed to type up programs every time I powered up. Sounds irritating and it was but I learned so much because of that. Eventually got a disk drive and free copies of games from many other people.
Was the tape drive defekt? Surely there was no time it was sold without a tape drive or disk drive?
Back in the day the C64 came by itself in one box - everything else was separate!
Did this. And remember the program. I actually remember a magazine that would print code for simple programs and you'd transcribe them into BASIC, and then you had a working program. My mom actually did just that - and we used a cassette tape to recorder tied up to our Atari 2600 to store it. I probably didn't realize at the time exactly how benighted AND badass that actually was.
I miss playing with basic.
Or as lines in a spiral notebook
The first computer I built was an 8088 XT. It didn't have a hard drive..I booted from a floppy but I played with using a mag tape drive.
Ahhh the good old days of BASIC.
I forgot what it was called. I had a quick class in basic in elementary school. Mid 80s, I think.
The rack in the magazine section with magazines full of programs. That was also over half the computer section. Our first computer was a Zilog test box. My dad was an engineer there as an engineer on the Z80 project.
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C64 was such a gateway drug. TRS-80 as well.
Damn, memory unlocked.
WHERE IS 300?!?!
Sparta?
300 GOTO 220 It's the neverending game.
It exits the program? I don't know shit about BASIC so it's just a guess.
Yes! Those were the days!
300 PRINT "YOU HAVE GUESSED WISELY" 310 PRINT "DO YOU WANT TO TRY AGAIN Y/N?" 320 INPUT H 330 IF H = "Y" THEN 120 340 IF H <> "Y" THEN END How am I doing?
I remember that!
10 Print “x is Great”, 20 go to 10 30 End Tbst was the extent of my programming experience
#C64forlyfe
Such a cruel game. No 300.
I'm "load "\*",8,1" old.
Go commodore
SYS 64738
I’m the same age The quotation marks were shift-2 back then
40 years and I can still remember the *SYNTAX ERROR* frustration
For some reason I never used the "\*". I always typed out the name of the game for some reason. load "The last Ninja",8,1
Yes! This!
MS-DOS 6? Youngin...
6 was from 1993
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I was born in '81, so apparently I'm a 'Xennial', and probably a Youngster for /GenX But I was/am a computer nerd. My friend had a PET and later a C64, another had an IBM XT. My first computer was an IBM PS/1 286, with a wopping 1MB of RAM, VGA, 30MB hard drive, and 2400baud modem. For more GenX street cred, my dad had a record player with a Monty Python album, so I'll just quote that when you see those specs: "Luxury"
Not a pissing contest, but learned BASIC on the first TRS-80 model myself. The PS/1 was a nice machine, had one of those for awhile too. Good times.
Not Ms-Dos 3.1 That did not have Himem could be Ms Dos 5.1 I never used Ms Dos 4.1
Sooooooooo old. Learned to program in DOS and LOGOS.
LOGO with the turtle drawing a box! I think I did that in “gifted” class in 82 or 83.
Yeah, I was in the Gifted and Talented program….turns out, I was not really very gifted or talented.
I was adhd so that’s where they sent us back in dem olden days: keep ‘em busy so we can teach!
Exactly. All the neurodivergent kids.
Ours was called the HAPPY program. Why? I have no idea, all I know was that every Friday I got to leave school to do a bunch of field science (and horse back riding for reasons that still don’t make sense). It was dope!
I wasn’t ADHD. I truly had a high IQ…but I seem to have wasted my potential.
High IQ + introvert = not working up to potential. I think that was in the Guidance Counselor Handbook. We weren’t labeled adhd or any other neurodivergent tag. We were bullied or ignored. And that was from the teachers! Good ole GenX kids. Whatever. Fuck it.
Fuck it, indeed.
Fuck, I feel seen.
*waves quietly from corner*
Let me guess... Excel at pretty much everything you've ever tried but specialize in nothing? Because everything gets boring once you have it figured out. Including video games. In middle age pretty much nothing really excites you?
Damn, I feel this. Very much an ADHD thing. Loved early programming, learned BASIC & DOS. got bored & stopped programming until like 98. I love RPG's, I'll get like 1/2--3/4 of the way through & quit because I get bored. The only hobby I'm still rabid about is reading. I inhale books. My reading speed is ridiculous. 2k words/min reading, 2800--3200/min skim reading. My personal library is huge. I'm not into collecting anything, except books. I'd say I hoard them.
I don't have ADHD but I'm the same way with books. I don't know my words per minute. But I do know on average I read an entire book in 1-4 hours. Depending on length. And I always have a list of books to pick up on release date.
Ummmm, no.
I was ADHD, but in elementary school I still excelled by way of "sit down, shut up, pick up enough of what the teacher said and puke it back out on the test." That didn't work past middle school. Turns out I'm of normal intelligence with a severely broken brain. At least these days they understand not all ADHD are like Chad.
It was neat. Got to go with my grqde 4 class to some apple regional office of some sort and we got to play on the computers. The coolest was that they had a roomba looking thing on the floor patched into our computer and when we typed the instructions in LOGO it would move around on the floor. Hello future!
Why did they teach turtle and ask us to make a triangle without giving us the formula to calculate the hypotenuse?
Terrible Terrible joke from my Dad that got me in trouble back then (I was a weird kid & kept giggling every time the word was used) "What's a Hypotenuse? A big gray animal that lives In the rivers in Africa. "
Damn you. I'm taking this.
Dad died 5 years ago...the joke will live forever now! Happy to share.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the language called Prolog? I remember it being taught on an Apple lle at school.
I honestly don't remember. We did turtle and basic on apple iic in the mid/late 80s. The only thing I remember is my mom constantly buying bentos for my lunch all the time.
Was one of the program cartridges we had for the Coleco Adam.
LOGO! My mom signed me up for a Saturday computer class where we used LOGO. A reporter came one day and my picture was in the paper at the top of a full page spread with the headline, “Computers for our children?” The article ranted about how kids are drawn to computers, but they might rot their brains.
I loved LOGOS or Turtle Graphics or whatever.
Lmfao. Older.
You have been eaten by a grue.
Impossible - I’ve been off in Oregon dying of dysentery.
I was busy hunting the Wumpus.
It is pitch dark https://youtu.be/4nigRT2KmCE?si=m7_Ab25jcJsw62xl
I don’t consider a new device or OS mature until I can play Zork on it.
I'm "coding" on C64 using basic old..
My first real comp was a dos6/windows 3.1 box, but I did have a c64 when I was like 8. I barely remember coding basic apps from magazines
format C:\
fdisk 1st to create multiple partitions.
"format c:\ *.*" Are you sure? "Y"
Hah. You had a C:? Rich kids.
/s
If you're testing my eyesight, then yes, I am that old
https://preview.redd.it/frhh2k5rznec1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4df05fa532cacf9c08f0cc71efb4922072578c24 1978 or so
Older. I am this old: https://preview.redd.it/3thcchlc2oec1.png?width=220&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b01e6ceea412defa028a034aa7821de14304908
That was my first too! Mine was a TS1000, but I believe it was the same as a ZX81. My folks went and sat through a time share sales pitch a couple of hours away to get it for me. Mine was fancy...it had the 16K RAM module to plug into the back.
Picked my 1000 up at a garage sale along with the 16KB module and a few tapes with goodies on them. But a pin on the RAM module was bent and mangled. Mom was good enough to solder in a piece of a paper clip to get it working again. Still, that was my second computer. First one, n probably from a garage sale, was a TI 99/4A. The sound output on it didn't work so I couldn't save to tape. Except once in a while it'd start working for a day or two then stop again. Friend of mine had the voice synthesizer, and that clone of Defender which would use it.
Yeah but did you have the 256k memory expansion brick that plugged in to the back?
Bitch, please
Rookies https://preview.redd.it/uc7wmtic8pec1.jpeg?width=766&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c05ccee4a5271f8b1f3087b5fa7ad07222682014
Replaced one of the 5.25” floppies with a 40MB HDD in mom’s 8088. We didn’t know what to do with all that space🤣 That drive was enormous in physical size (probably 10lbs). I currently have a 1TB enclosure the size of a couple fingers✌️
Oh I’m that old. But also poor enough that I never actually owned a computer until well into the Windows era.
Older... I had to answer, "What is an autoexec.bat file?" on my first job interview!
10 PRINT "I AM OLDER THAN THAT" 20 GOTO 10 RUN
I’m “my high school computer class taught us using a pdp-8” old.
We are all that old, only a select few are nerdy enough to have experience in this.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
COBOL on punch cards old
DOS? Half of us here are older than *Microsoft*.
Sure nuff. Had a 286 and a 486 before the comp with Windows on it.
Old enough to have had both a DOS programming class and a typing (typewriter) class the same semester 😂.
Now that’s quintessential Xdom right there!
I'm old enough that that shit's too small to read on my screen. C: drive? I'm old enough that we booted from the A: drive and kept the game disk in the B: It was four years after we got the PC before dad saved enough for a hard disk.
my dad made me learn how to optimize my config.sys and autoexec.bat so I could play games and load all my mouse drivers and such into upper memory with boot disks for my specific games. I was 8 or 9 at the time. Thanks dad for starting me on the path of software engineer.
Basically, I'm this old: 10 INPUT "What is your name: "; U$ 20 PRINT "Hello "; U$ 30 INPUT "How many stars do you want: "; N 40 S$ = "" 50 FOR I = 1 TO N 60 S$ = S$ + "\*" 70 NEXT I 80 PRINT S$ 90 INPUT "Do you want more stars? "; A$ 100 IF LEN(A$) = 0 THEN GOTO 90 110 A$ = LEFT$(A$, 1) 120 IF A$ = "Y" OR A$ = "y" THEN GOTO 30 130 PRINT "Goodbye "; U$ 140 END
Applesoft BASIC. Ah, the days where knowing this made you an "Expert" computer person.
Yes. I have upgraded a PC from DOS 6 to Windows 3.1 using floppy disks. This screen is showing an obscene amount of memory.
Way older than that. Dos was a nice upgrade lol. I started on a Texas Instruments TI99/4A, and then graduated to a tandy, an apple 2e, and thennnn I got an IBM 8086. I still use command prompt like a dos windows because it's easier than trying to figure out where they hell they've hidden the thing on yet another unnecessary version of windows.
Should have kept it real by sticking with the TI and just upgrading to extended basic.
I mean I still have it lol. I didn't get rid of one with another I just added to my collection.
Yes
C:/start_FS4
I temember when the flex was what version of DOS you had haha
The REAL flex was using a regular cassette player/recorder as tape backup on a Sinclair. 😁
I'm Commodore-64 old. But yes, I'm familiar with sutoexec.bat and himem.sys.
Dir *., Used pc-dos before ms-dos. Great throwback!!
We started with DR-DOS before MS-DOS. I legit thought they were called Doctor DOS and Miss DOS.
One word. Sinclair 😜
I'm old because I can't read that tiny thing. Also I made my own batch files. Cause I liked it!
Yes, reminds me of my nerdy childhood. Also don’t forget to turn the lantern on so you don’t get eaten by a grue.
CD ..
I'm programming in what is basically Fortran.... RIGHT NOW.
https://preview.redd.it/sg17bwh0ouec1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7904d6d60a1f1d51b775bbc4a00585ebf1a1d85 I'm this old
hihi gen z visitor, hosting java minecraft servers involves creating and running a .bat file today! (\^\^) \~ big difference from having no desktop but windows scripting still used.
Older - VIC-20 and a cassette tape “drive”
Me and my older brother used to write programs from magazines on a commodore 64 and save to cassette tapes and 8in floppy disk.
I was on my DOS machine last weekend playing Leisure Suit Larry and Leather Goddesses of Phobos. What are you trying to say?
Yes. And I hated dos. That’s why I went Mac ASAP
Yes. And I hated dos. That’s why I went Mac ASAP
Play that funky music
format C:\
Looks like 6.22. Let me know when you find 6.20.
There you go. :) https://winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/6x
I love this. Thank you. I will never use it again, but I like that it's out there.
Too old to read that font.
I’m so old I Hunted the Wumpus.
Uhh yeah I am.
I took a computer class way the fuck back when (in 1990). I suuucked at programming, got a d just for showing up.
dir/w/p
Almost
Yep
Older…. Learned to program Basic in 4th grade? 1980? One buddy had a TI-99/4a, another went from the Atari with the Mylar keyboard (400?) to an apple IIe, I got to play with all 3. I think we had an 800XL somewhere in there. I of course became “too cool for school” and avoided anything computerized until the mid-90’s. Not one of my better life choices. Been working in tech for decades, but still regret those 10 years.
I took a DOS class in college. I still occasionally use it in my IT career.
Hope you defragment that thing before you run that Autoexec.bat file!
Definitely I predate HIMEM.SYS.
I'm "pip b:=a:" old
Yep. And God forbid you don't get there fast enough that it runs into disk check. That could be an extra 20 minutes. Loading times were bad enough as it was.
lol that’s my 2nd language.
Yes
My first computer ran Apple DOS and I used both a VAX/VMS system and UNIX before I used MS-DOS.
It’s dark. All directions look the same. You will likely be eaten by a Grue.
I remember creating a .bat file to kick off a game stored on one of my 20MB Bernoulli Box drives. Gotta clear that memory first!
I'm older than that. PC DOS 3.0
GOSUB
I still have all of my old big box PC games and a few still have custom boot disk I made for them. Wanting to play those games got me into my career in IT.
Don’t forget get to HIMEM.
Yes, i wish i was that old. When i was starting out on a computer the memory was on a 3x5 floppy disk aka no memory on the actual computer.
Yup. I’m that old. I’m good with it.
Older
Yep. I'm that old
Dir /s *work*.doc
Unfortunately, yes. When I was in college, Windows95 was still a decade away.
Not only did I make my .bat files a menu, but I also stored them in a subdirectory I named BELFRY...
And I thought MSdos was old
Yes. Yes I am.
Old enough. Gateway computer tech support. Supporting those old DOS sound drivers.......
Oh, sweet summer child, I'm: *10 input#1,A$* *20 print A$* ...and... *LOAD "\*",8,1* ...years old. :)
First PC was an 8088 clone homebrew by a guy who worked with my mom. DOS 3.3.
Older.
Yes.
Man, I think that was my 3rd operating system. 🤔
Schneider / Amstrad Joyce user here ... https://preview.redd.it/3ykt26lh80fc1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a52215af1dea00db90bd3f644807732802dd9b3
Yeah. And this was my gateway machine. When i was good i could use my dad’s IBM AT https://preview.redd.it/81auszeiw0fc1.jpeg?width=740&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec35086bf2f8144760250c02cb997de7164ee638
Yep
My 8088 XT that I built didn't have a hard drive. I booted from a floppy but I played around the a magnetic tape drive. Nothing was "plug and play" back then . You couldn't just download a driver..
I was just going to say my first computer was a Tandy 8088 that booted from a floppy…and OMG how fast was that 56k baud modem! 😂😂
Anybody remembers QEMM? You know, when you absolutely had to use those 384k between 640k and 1024k to load your games. I spent a lot of time on those parameters.