Mal ,'War Stories'
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2005 Classic Computers Calendar
What, no Tandy Model 100? (Was the first popular laptop.)
No Trash-80 either. They're just anti-RadioShack.
Yeah, the Tandy CoCo should be in there as well!
Ah, the joys of going to a mall, walking to Radio Shack, finding a Tandy CoCo and typing:
10 i=i+1
20 print i
30 goto 10
run
and walking away.
OK, I forget - do you need to dimension i in that code?
eta: you could add a semicolon at the end of line 20 if you want it to scroll neatly, one number to a line.
I used to do that to Apple II's, only I'd add a CNTRL-G in there so that it would beep with each line.
Yes. Even then I was evil.
Oh you rapscallions!
I would also program C-64s to just sit there unti someone pressed a key, then the screen would start flashing rapidly different colors and a weird siren sound would eminate....
This is why we can never have nice things.
And in my high-school computer class, I programmed one of our Commodore computers to display the exact same message that'd be displayed when the computer was first started up (like, the amount of free memory, something about BASIC, etc.) Then when someone started pressing keys... weird things would happen.
And I programmed one to display the time and outside temperature. There was a system variable ti$ that always had the time; I had a few folks convinced that there was a te$ that always had the outside temperature.
No Franklin consoles, either. Hubby still has his old Franklin because it's the only thing that plays what used to be his favorite Star Fleet game. Now, of course, he plays networked Warcraft and stuff. I suppose I'll have to bury him with the Franklin and the cartridge, just so he has his favorite toys with him. That and a sword.