In the beginning

[kurtmckee]

My first programming language was some variant of BASIC on a VTech Precomputer 2000. Then one day I discovered that a copy of QBasic was included with DOS and began using it to program. I wrote software to add and subtract arbitrarily long strings of integers (I don't think I added support for floating point), software that would perform long

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Good news, Kurt!

[ext_964981]

I may or may not have a zip disk labeled "Freesoft" and a zip drive waiting to extract the information. I will check and see if I have the methods required to get any info out of it.

Side note: The "Prove you are human" to post a comment contraption is asking me how many miles are on my vehicle, and if I answer "I do not own a car", then it says I am a robot...??

Re: Good news, Kurt!

[kurtmckee]

Aw yiss! 90's nostalgia party! Seriously on zip disk, though? I love it! Just make sure you don't click-of-death it when you insert it in the drive!

And speaking of drives, you don't own a car? You should lie and pick a number in the early dozen-thousands. As long as the number increases by a maximum of 600 miles per day between posts from a particular IP address the system should allow you through. It's an easy system to game because computers ar dum.

Re: Good news, Kurt!

[ext_964981]

Yeah, now I have to find a computer that has old IDE ports, which may prove difficult.

Of course I own a car! But I was really curious as to what answer is considered something a "robot" would pick.

Re: Good news, Kurt!

[kurtmckee]

No problem, I still have my old PC with its ancient IDE interfaces. I'll pop out the floppy drive so we have space to install the Zip drive, yeah?