6 May
1997
6 May
'97
6:52 p.m.
Two of my favorites:
ISTR (tho I haven't seen it since it came out) that the original Terminator
was programmed in:
1: Basic (Applesoft Basic, wasn't it?)
2: 8-bit Assembly (methinks 6800/6809, but it could have been 6502...
memory fuzzy)
3: Get this: COBOL!!!!! ;-O
There may have been others... but those are three I distinctly remember
from the movie.
The other one (of course):
Scotty talking to a mouse on an original Macintosh (which, of course) had
the computational capabilities of a Cray it would seem...
And the 64,000 byte question: If Scotty had *never* seen a QWERTY keyboard
before in his life... how the *he!!* can he type so fast!?!
Inquiring minds want to know!
Prost,
"Merch"
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6 May
6 May
7:01 p.m.
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Roger Merchberger wrote:
And the 64,000 byte question: If Scotty had *never* seen a QWERTY keyboard
before in his life... how the *he!!* can he type so fast!?!
Inquiring minds want to know!
I think it wasn't so much that he hadn't "seen" a "qwerty"
keyboard
inasmuch that he wasn't "used" to one. (thus the "How Quaint"
comment)
Speaking of movie computers. i don't remember the name of it, might have
even been some stupid movie on MST3K like "Robot Holocaust" or something
but ANYWAYS... one of the scenes was a cheesy underground "lair" (not
unlike a "batcave") that had a requisite mad scientist with his super
computer which consisted of a giant steel box with a rectangular hole in
the top of it from which peeked a VIC-20!
Les
7:16 p.m.
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Two of my favorites:
ISTR (tho I haven't seen it since it came out) that the original Terminator
was programmed in:
1: Basic (Applesoft Basic, wasn't it?)
2: 8-bit Assembly (methinks 6800/6809, but it could have been 6502...
memory fuzzy)
3: Get this: COBOL!!!!! ;-O
I haven't seen it in a while, and the text wasn't all that readable, but
I could swear Terminator I had Apple ][ 6502 disassemblies scrolling
through his head.
And the 64,000 byte question: If Scotty had *never*
seen a QWERTY keyboard
before in his life... how the *he!!* can he type so fast!?!
This is almost the same as asking why the new alien species which they
just came into contact with speaks english.
Sam
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