Imlac assembler almost ready...

Well, I grew up with Fortran. My first introduction to a real computer was in 1964. At the time I lived on Long Island, NY, and the HS I was attending was close to Brookhaven National Laboratory. I had several ham friends working there at the time as well. Anyway, between my junior and senior years at HS BNL offered a summer course for a few select individuals to learn about computers. I, and about 8 or so of my classmates, decided to take the class. It was great. We had to program in machine language and write a program to calculate the value of PI using a power series. What a great experience. I believe we used an IBM 7094, but it was a long time ago. I believe the 360 became popular toward the later part of the 60's. At college everything was in Fortran, and I became pretty comfortable with it. Used it even after I received my BSEE undergraduate degree. Used Fortran a lot at work in the early '70s. However, for the past 25 or more years, I have essentially used nothing but GW basic ( or equivalent) to solve equations and redundant algorithms. Even for simple calculations. I have used just plain C a few times, but I always go back to GW Basic. It works for me, and I understand it. I guess I am as much of a dinasour as some of these machines. Regards - Mike Mike B. Feher, N4FS 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell NJ, 07731 (732) 901-9193 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 1:51 PM Subject: Re: Imlac assembler almost ready...