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From: John Hasler on 19 Jun 2010 10:30 I wrote: > I've got a pile of them upstairs. If I had an EPROM eraser (a > programmer is easy to build) I'd use them instead of Atmel chips. Nate Bargmann writes: > Needham's Electronics used to offer them, assuming they're still in > business. Oh, I know I could _buy_ one. However, while I have piles of microprocessors and EPROMs upstairs, I have yet to locate the piles of money. Everything I build must use only scrap and junk. Fortunately, I have an adequate supply. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkyrrucp.fsf(a)thumper.dhh.gt.org
From: Mark Allums on 20 Jun 2010 00:30 On 6/19/2010 4:09 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/19/2010 03:35 AM, Klistvud wrote: >> Dne, 19. 06. 2010 06:32:04 je Gerald napisal(a): >>> Those were the days when men were men and systems were built by >>> men.!!!!! >>> Gerald >>> >> >> Yep. As opposed to the Internet Age, in which not only men are men, but >> most of the women are men as well, while little girls are actually FBI >> agents ... >> > > My daughter wants to be a Marine, not a Fed... I think he means G-men posing as little girls in chat rooms. But, yeah... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C1D9893.4060400(a)allums.com
From: David Baron on 20 Jun 2010 10:20 I learned programming in 1963 (now that's OLD). My first computer was the IBM 1620. The first desktop, or should I say, desk (the whole thing). No OS. Used punched cards (OOOLLLLDDDD). Had a crippled FORTRAN compiler, assembler, little else, but had a unique variable word-length architecture and did arithmetic by table look-up so could do some funny math. Debugging by turning a dial and seeing what lights were lit (register bits on). Did some linear algebra with the FORTRAN but that was no fun. I had this thing translating Spanish to English, programmed in assembler. Program had overlaid subroutines (made by making a deck without the boot- loader cards) to handle language-specific processing, i.e. grammar. Had two dictionaries, one with word-endings and one with plain words and word-roots. I stored just enough into the very limited memory for proof of concept. Brute force look-up, hadn't learned of anything better yet. 1963. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006201654.07889.d_baron(a)012.net.il
From: John Hasler on 20 Jun 2010 11:20
David Barron writes: > I learned programming in 1963 (now that's OLD). You've got me beat by several years. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hltsqik.fsf(a)thumper.dhh.gt.org |