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in thread Diversity

U.S. Naval Academy '97. I grew up with a Timex Sinclair 1000 and BASIC, and finally got back into computers.

I was just mentioning how interesting the Perl community is.

J. J. Horner

Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix

jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org

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RE: RE: RE: Diversity
by neshura (Chaplain) on May 30, 2000 at 22:24 UTC
    Oh, you're going to make me cry. I miss my Timex Sinclair. I used it until the button pad gave out finally. I'm considering picking up another one on ebay and writing a web server for fun and (non)profit.

    Yeah, the perl community is interesting. I never thought of it as particularly diverse. If anything, the deviation of opinions from the norm is pretty predictable.

    e-mail neshura

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RE: RE: RE: Diversity
by BBQ (Curate) on Jun 01, 2000 at 07:49 UTC
    Hey! The 1st program I wrote was in BASIC! I don't think you could call it a program, but I got it to play the tunes I wanted (literally).

    Does anyone remember the HP'85? (85 was just the number, the actual computer was out in 81/82 I think). It had a screwy version of BASIC, that interpreted print output to the attached printer and not to the screen. I'm having a hard time remembering what the print equivalent was now...

    #!/home/bbq/bin/perl
    # Trust no1!
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RE: RE: RE: Diversity
by ZZamboni (Curate) on May 31, 2000 at 08:38 UTC
    Hey, we are discovering some common past here. a TS1000 was my first computer. I also used it until the keyboard would not respond anymore. I had the memory expansion, so I had a whooping 16K!

    From there to my C64, C128, PC, Unix - and the rest, as they say, is history. I'm getting nostalgic.

    --ZZamboni

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      I didn't have the expansion... I couldn't even fit hangman into that 2K! You're the jerk I was always jealous of! ;)

      Well, at least at school they had lots of Apple ]['s. 

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