danishdude1944 to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 days agoWhat was your first computer?imagemessage-square201linkfedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1246arrow-down1imageWhat was your first computer?danishdude1944 to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square201linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewaspentalive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoS100 bus kit computer, a Polymorphic Polly 88.
minus-squareMachinist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day 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-up2·1 day 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.