ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Re: Computers and the Internet Remember Your First Computer?

Paul,

What was that?

A reference to Trumpy's comments about programming in COBOL and the people who hassled him that are now flipping burgers.

I guess you've never seen COBOL ?

Have a look here for what some real COBOL programs look like.
http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/examples/default.htm

I had a VC20, if I'd try I guess I could find it on the net( so you too!

Here you go Gloria:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=252



[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 10-10-2004).]

Wow,

This thread takes me back a few! The first that I owned was an Apple IIc. Man. I remember spending hours pounding in lines from a magazine, only to get "syntax error line 1045".

There was an earlier post about not having a "LET" command. AppleSoft did not reqire it, it would also let you do a "FOR without NEXT".

The first one that I used was a TRS 80 and an IBM System 34, that was in high school.

Memories...........

Dont worry, I had just seen a "type mismatch" error, I was so delighted!!! LOL!