danishdude1944@feddit.dk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 14 days agoWhat was your first computer?feddit.dkimagemessage-square162fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarewaspentalive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·12 days agoS100 bus kit computer, a Polymorphic Polly 88.
minus-squareMachinist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoWoah. That’s seriously old school. We had a C64 and then a DOS clone. What do you program? As late as 2018, I know of punch tape CNC still running production using rs-232 to optical out in the tape head.
minus-squarewaspentalive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·12 days agoFor that machine, I wrote a “John Conway’s game of LIFE” that used the screen memory to hold the life array. Nowadays I rock an i5 running Linux.
S100 bus kit computer, a Polymorphic Polly 88.
Woah. That’s seriously old school. We had a C64 and then a DOS clone.
What do you program?
As late as 2018, I know of punch tape CNC still running production using rs-232 to optical out in the tape head.
For that machine, I wrote a “John Conway’s game of LIFE” that used the screen memory to hold the life array. Nowadays I rock an i5 running Linux.