First programming job - TRS-80
Apr. 28th, 2011 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysMy decluttering project continues at pace. Slow is a pace - right? Every rubbish day, I have a go at a shelf, drawer or bin to clear out (now) worthless junk I have accumulated and couldn't bring myself to throw away before. It has been slow but I have made good progress.
Yesterday I managed to surprise myself though because behind a bunch of shelved books I found a whole bunch of computer disks. I thought I had long since cleaned out all the obsolete software and the like. It was all stuff stored on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. Some was old PC software but most of it was for my old Apple ][. That is going so far back. (for those of you who don't know, the Apple ][ is not a Mac - it predates both the Mac and the IBM PC).
And because I can't seem to post anything these days without two independent triggers coming together, here is a recent cartoon from the wonderful Not Invented Here that came to mind as I was contemplating this pile of unusable software and data:
For the record, I used 5 1/4 and 8 inch floppies, punch cards, paper tape and even controlled computer storage from the switches on the front panel of a PDP-8. Silly game though - I'd never want to go back to those days. Heck I don't even have any interest at all in writing code these days.
Yesterday I managed to surprise myself though because behind a bunch of shelved books I found a whole bunch of computer disks. I thought I had long since cleaned out all the obsolete software and the like. It was all stuff stored on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. Some was old PC software but most of it was for my old Apple ][. That is going so far back. (for those of you who don't know, the Apple ][ is not a Mac - it predates both the Mac and the IBM PC).
And because I can't seem to post anything these days without two independent triggers coming together, here is a recent cartoon from the wonderful Not Invented Here that came to mind as I was contemplating this pile of unusable software and data:
For the record, I used 5 1/4 and 8 inch floppies, punch cards, paper tape and even controlled computer storage from the switches on the front panel of a PDP-8. Silly game though - I'd never want to go back to those days. Heck I don't even have any interest at all in writing code these days.