Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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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.
I still have my Colecovision.
I also have a CP/M machine down in my parent's garage that is in a plywood case and features an 8" floppy. I'm pretty sure I've got wordstar for it.
Some day I should put pictures of my vintage laptop collection on-line.
I have the first Tandy laptop, the next generation Tandy laptop (with the screen that flips up like a modern laptop), the first Epson laptop (with built-in printer and cassette drive), and the first Apple laptop. Plus the first and second Tandy "pocket computers."
I'm wondering - what was the first Intel 8086 or 8088-based laptop? I need one of those....
And the flashdrive currently hanging around my neck, being one of the lesser ones at 16 mb, would be considered a piece of giddy-inducing technology back then. Then again, I was thrilled when I got a calculator in high school that could do square roots. It was well timed, I was having serious slide rule dread.