I remember, though, a day when there was no such thing as a hard drive, the operating system was part of the BIOS, and every program was loaded from 5.25" floppy disks.....or cartridges.
The days of the Texas Instruments 99-4/A. *nostalgic*
Yeah, I get nostalgic about the TRS-80 Model III with casette tape drive and 4k of ram that was the first computer I ever used, as well as about the C-64/C-128, and even the Commodore +4, the computer I wrote a lot of stuff in Basic for because there was no software for it, and then I re-did a lot of the subroutines in 6502 Assembly, because it had a built in Assembler, and it was too slow for all Basic code.
Erf! I can't remember that much about the computers we had back in those days, nor did I build much myself. Though I did make a few little programs for fun...like a tiny text strategy game I got out of a book and had to modify heavily to make it work in TI Extended BASIC...or the proto-game I made that simply moved a large sprite with custom graphics (custom as in, temporarily redesigned the system font to make a graphic; that's how you did it with the TI) around the screen with the joystick...or the fun little screen-filler I made where you enter in a number and it converts that number into binary, then makes it a bit pattern for a sprite that then gets tiled all over the screen. I thought the bit pattern for increasing binary numbers on the rows
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I remember, though, a day when there was no such thing as a hard drive, the operating system was part of the BIOS, and every program was loaded from 5.25" floppy disks.....or cartridges.
The days of the Texas Instruments 99-4/A. *nostalgic*
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