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NewsBing Vs Google on
Can't Choose Between Bing and Google? Use Both!

Posted 08/26/2009 at 01:43:36pm

KUDOS for you, Domagoj
 

FeaturesMy first computer.... on
Dawn of the Personal Computer: From Altair to the IBM PC

Posted 06/08/2009 at 05:38:34pm

...was a Texas TI-99 4A with a glorious Extended Basic cartridge that allowed to invoke sprites that were 8x8 or 16x16 bits. I still rember how bad the function CALL COINC  worked to determine when 2 sprites colide (vital for shooting games I used to program). The video procssor got dizzy with 3 or more sprites in line.

When all my classmates were dating girls in highs school, I was spending hours in front of the TV coding 16Kbytes of software... AAAGGHHH

 My next computer was a Commodore 128. I learned how to trick some interesting features with PEEK and POKE. The most useful was the one that allowed to run C64 games with the power and speed of C128. My first lines in Assembler were written in C128...what a orgasm !!!

Then I jumped to PC XT, PC AT 286 with the 80287 math co-processor! Wow... Running Mathematica was such a pleasure...

Thank you MPC for the flashback!

 

gustyK!

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