Dark Ages

[Steve Johnson]

Maybe YOURS do, but my dark ages start in 1980 when I started programming.

>===== Original Message From Steven L. Brendtro <SMTP:sbrendtro at home.com>
=====
>Sorry... the dark ages go back alot farther than the 1980s!  The ENIAC was
built
>in 1942, 38 years before the "dark ages" :)
>
>Steve B.
>
>PS   I didn't see any of those punch cards at ITEC today :(  They should
have
an
>ancient exhibit or two just for fun, you know...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Johnson [mailto:sjohnson at commercial-lithographing.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:22 PM
>To: 'kclug at kclug.org'
>Subject: RE: Qbasic ?
>
>
>
>It dates back to the dark ages (1980) when you inserted the punched cards
and
>the head of form loop you accidently created shot paper up high enough to
hit
>the ceiling until the box ran out.
>
>Then you employed a skill, long forgotten, called "debugging".
>
>The current skill is "running the debugger".  These should not be confused
as
>being the same.
>
>sj
>
>>===== Original Message From "Cox, Michael"
<SMTP:michael.cox at honeywell.com>
>=====
>>It wobbles the mind, doesn't it?
>>
>>You mean...one...tiny...molecule on my fingernail...could be...a whole
other
>>Earth???
>>
>>;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dlegion [ mailto:dlegion at yahoo.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:03 PM
>>> To: kclug at kclug.org
>>> Subject: Qbasic ?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm taking a home course on QBASIC, and as I was reading
>>> along I suddenly was
>>> dumb struck.  When the first program to ever be writen was
>>> writen, How did
>>> they check it or code it to make sure it would work and since
>>> it would have
>>> been the first program EVER! how did they wirte it?
>>>
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