17 Nov
2003
17 Nov
'03
2:41 p.m.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:33:51 -0800 Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
writes:
Back in the late 70's I was writing some games on
the first Atari
400 for Programma International, and the guy that was the big hot shot
on
Programma, huh? I remember those guys. They created my favourite
programming
language: SPL/M! It ran on 6800's under FLEX. It makes me wish I were
home
so I could play with my 6802 . . . .
the PET wrote the first generation of bomb blast
software for the HP45
(I
think 45, maybe it was 65 or something). Strange guy,
he worked on I
think an
Had to be the 55 or 65. The 45 wasn't programmable.
Apple II for a year in south america without a
monitor, just using
beeps
etc to test his code.
That has to be one of the craziest things I've ever heard . . . .
I don't think people outside of the top military
realize just how
close nuclear war was during this period.
Closer than say, during the Cuban Missle Crisis?!?!
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