Commonwealth Games: Bob strikes again.

[wobbegong]

C is a man's language, C++ is for shandy-drinking puffs.

C? Luxury!! We used to code using just ones and zeros in a text editor. Sometimes we only had ones.

You tell that to kids nowadays and they won't believe you.

[PRC1964]

C? Luxury!! We used to code using just ones and zeros in a text editor. Sometimes we only had ones.

You tell that to kids nowadays and they won't believe you.

Text editor? Punch cards, but using only your teeth to make the holes.

[darmstadt]

No, people who indulge in 'my test methodology is better than yours' are sadder than that.

Nah, people who say my OS is better than your OS. Going out to all the fanboi's

[SupremeSpod]

Text editor? Punch cards, but using only your teeth to make the holes.

Punch cards? Luxury!

AGC software was written in AGC assembly language and stored on rope memory.

Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Core rope memory is a form of read-only memory (ROM) for computers, first used by early NASA Mars probes and then in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) designed by MIT and built by Raytheon.
Contrary to ordinary coincident-current magnetic core memory, which was used for RAM at the time, the ferrite cores in a core rope are just used as transformers. The signal from a word line wire passing through a given core is coupled to the bit line wire and interpreted as a binary "one" while a word line wire that bypasses the core is not coupled to the bit line wire and is read as a "zero". In the AGC, up to 64 wires could be passed through a single core.
Software written by NASA programmers was woven into core rope memory by female workers in factories. Some NASA programmers nicknamed the finished product LOL memory, for Little Old Lady memory.

Core rope memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[SupremeSpod]

They were either very big cores or very fine wires.

One suspects the latter.

Where do you think the grannies who make shreddies got their training?

Grannies at work!

[Mich the Tester]

Funniest thing I've ever seen was someone trying to stick the chad back in the holes to change the program.

2004 US Election?

2004 United States election voting controversies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Saddo]

Nah, people who say my OS is better than your OS. Going out to all the fanboi's

C# is better than VB.NET is another favourite. In reality they are equally as good as each other because they use a common underlying library set, it's just the human interface bit which is different (but C# is better than VB.NET in that respect).

[SupremeSpod]

C# is better than VB.NET is another favourite. In reality they are equally as good as each other because they use a common underlying library set, it's just the human interface bit which is different (but C# is better than VB.NET in that respect).

My Atari 130xe is better than your C64...

[Mich the Tester]

The saddest people are people who argue about who's started the saddest argument.

[SupremeSpod]

The saddest people are people who argue about who's started the saddest argument.

No they're not!