lovesphotos Loc: Colorado and Arizona

I have 10 rows of 10 balls strung on wire with a frame around it.

rfmaude41 Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)

It stands for "Extended CHLF" and CHLF stands for Camridge-Harwell-London-Farnborough

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

And you never got a virus or malware on it, did you?

Radioman Loc: Ontario Canada

The one Bill Gates designed got a very good price at Auction, along with one of his memo's:

TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

I was actually born with a computer, it can count up to 10. :roll: :-D

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

I had the Commodore 20 with a cassette recorder for data storage. I couldn't afford the 64 or the hard drive then. I just "inherited" 7 laptops running XP. I've got three up and t running so far. They were headed to the dumpster (not smart) so I asked the company owner if I could have them and he said yes.Just got to get power supplies ($10 ea.) and clean up the HD's. :thumbup:

TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

The good days.

Tarfun Loc: Red Bank NJ USA

This is testing the limits of my rusty memory.

Yes. TRS stood for Tandy/Radio Shack (the companies merged). In that process we eventually lost access to a host of leather goods sold in Tandy stores.

They marketed their computer as "Radio Shack Color Computer," or "Rainbow Computer." Those of us in the baby computer fraternity referred to them TRS-80 (or Trash80) computers. Its CPU was a Motorola 6809 (a prototype for Motorola's later 68000 series of chips).

It was my first computer. Radio Shack Basic provided me an opportunity to learn something about programming.

Somewhere along the line I encountered the Mandelbrot Fractal, and related articles in Scientific American. Using that little computer coupled to a 5-inch floppy, I managed to create a program to render the Mandelbrot Fractal. The deeper one probed into the fractal, the longer it took to render an image; sometimes several weeks! The 6809 was not a fast chip.

One little known fact about the TRS80 was that it could run multiple windows. It was neat to switch between them to see what was happening, even if only inconsequential.

Many TRS80 users at the time regretted that the Color Computer was marketed solely as a game machine. We thought that if T/RS had promoted its technical capabilities, and kept developing the machine in that direction, they might have emerged as a name brand PC manufacturer.

dirtball140 Loc: Warner, NH

I started writing code in the late 60's for the phone company. The code was all machine language, when BAL came along it was a jump forward as it had macros that you could use. The IBM1401 mainframe had a capacity of 8k, and the programs were carried in a long card shaped box that looked like a gun case. The program would read in in stages, perform a specific task to the whole universe of files then read in the next bit of the program to perform, rewind the magnetic tape and apply the next bit of logic. Has sure come a long way.

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

I used the 5 hole and 8 hole in the Army for teletype machines. Could read the holes fairly well. Then used the 8 hole in a lino-type machine at the Asbury Park Press.

My Atari needed programs typed in and saved on a cassette machine to be run. I'd start the cassette BEFORE supper so I didn't have to wait too long AFTER supper to run a game.

Sarge69

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

Then I guess you can code in Autocoder.

dirtball140 Loc: Warner, NH

Brucej67. not really machine language was what Autocoder would generate after compilation. I was dealing with maintenance, coding a patch and inserting it into the same allotted number of bytes and fixing a logic glitch. Eventually the logic change was made in Autocoder and recompiled into a bizillion punched cards. It gave you a real test of accuracy, but now drives me nuts when dealing today with computer screening at User help facilities as they have totally lost the sense of logic that used to be a requirement.

lovesphotos Loc: Colorado and Arizona

Heck no, except that one time when the kids messed up the position of the balls I had left. But I didn't have to call anybody in China or India to recover it. :D

Al Beatty Loc: Boise, Idaho

Yes, I had a C64 with two floppy drives. I thought it was really hot! Today I use a PC with Window 7. Take care & ...

gtemple1 Loc: E. Olympia, WA

I still have one, still works!