How many of you like HP41C calculators? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Nov 2003

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:33:51 -0800 Mike Ford &lt;mikeford(a)socal.rr.com&gt;
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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