26 Apr
2002
26 Apr
'02
1:49 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Franchuk [mailto:bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca]
Christopher Smith wrote:
> I'm not sure whether there were any compilers
available that
> didn't require disk drives. It would have been possible (not
> fun) given the proper programs.
Fortran II could compile from paper tape on the IBM
1620.
The PDP-8 had I think a paper tape version of fortran too,
but not sure
what version, II or IV.
... but we were talking about the Tandy Color Computer,
specifically. :)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
26 Apr
26 Apr
2:12 p.m.
Christopher Smith wrote:
... but we were talking about the Tandy Color Computer,
specifically. :)
Other cassette assembler there was not much more. Forth came on a ROM I
think. Cassette is better for program loading than program development.
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