Your first computer program

[darmstadt]

Todays programme:

>+++++++++[<++++++++>-]<.>+++++++[<++++>-]<+.+++++++..+++.>>>++++++++[<++++>-]
<.>>>++++++++++[<+++++++++>-]<---.<<<<.+++.------.--------.>>+.

 

[vetran]

me I think this reminds me of a poster but won't tell

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110421015559/bladerunner/images/8/85/Kaiser.jpg

 

[petergriffin]

Space invaders in assembler on the Oric-1. Not written by me, but I have adapted it from the C64, which used the same processor, 6502. I then quit programming as I though the IT wouldn't last long, me poor Doof!

 

[amcdonald]

Late 70's I wrote my first program on the schools 32k 2001-N Commodore Pet, to automate some of the tedious bit of gming Dungeons and Dragons

Ahh the days of Hunt The Wumpus!

 

[zeitghost]

My first digital computer program was written in FORTRAN IV on an ASR33 which punched the paper tape.

I discovered that " is different from ''.

Once you'd punched & corrected the paper tape, you loaded the compiler into the MOD ONE computer** via paper tape.

Then the compiler ran & used your program as input & produced an object paper tape.

Then you loaded the linker* & linked the object paper tape to produce your executable paper tape.

Then you loaded the executable & the MOD ONE computer crashed in flames.

It was ever so much fun.




*I'm not sure that it needed a link phase, but I've included it for completeness.

**The MOD ONE computer had 4k of core store & a VDU. The VDU was a sort of scope thing with a bistable screen that could show graphs & such like. It didn't do text.

MOD ONE is mentioned here:

http://www.tnmoc.org/news/notes-museum/40-years-ago-computer-weekly

Here's sommat about the CTL Modular One computer:

10Mb pdf.

http://www.redhawksys.com/index_files/CTL Modular One Computer.pdf

Complete with mouse nest in the psu.

 

[NotAllThere]

watch outs for Parrots.

Is that because there's a danger of parroty errors?

 

[Sausage Surprise]

Something in COBOL on a DHSS training course in 1986

 

[doodab]

Something in COBOL on a DHSS training course in 1986

Hmm that's a good idea. Why doesn't the Job Centre just set up some outsourced call centres, stick the jobless in that and call it IT training. Then they can sit their with their baps out all day logging service requests for civil servants who's computers are running slow. That kills at least three birds with one stone.

 

[Doggy Styles]

Inspired by this thread, today I went to see Collosus. Magnificent.

Was Tommy Flowers one of yours zeity?

 

[MrNice]

My first computer program was written in PASCAL language and it would ask a user to type in two numbers and then the program would output the sum