New DAC/Automaton Client

[gimpydog]

10 print get my domain
20 goto 10
30 run

lol. I was more into woodwork than IT. Worked for BT as an engineer when I left school 10 years later ended up in IT!

LOL, that bring back memories...

BASIC on a RM380Z

my coffee table made from old school desks,

and our old motto "any two's a pair!"

Happy Days

 

[aZooZa]

Lines 10 and 20 would result ad infinitum in:
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
etc.

The variable being 'printed' is not quoted, thus it would be evaluated as an integer. In older versions of BASIC, all variables need to be pre-assigned anyway using the 'LET' statement.

If line 30 could ever even be executed, the stack would overflow.

Nostalgia is fun

 

[stender]

Oh good an argument about basic. All I know is
10 print balls
20 goto 10
30 run
resulted in
bollocks
bollocks
bollocks
bollocks
bollocks
i could go on.
I know it worked as every computer would be left in that state at the end of class. When I say every i mean both the ginormous rm machines with 8.5 inch floppy.
or perhaps I dreamt it? it was early 80's and I was more interested in my panini football sticker albums.
It did get exciting in my final year when you could draw ceefax type pictures with the latest pc's

 

[FC Domains]

This sketch is getting silly.

You intended:

10 PRINT "Balls"

or

5 balls$="bollocks"
10 PRINT balls$

 

[philipp]

Seeing as we're getting a bit nostalgic, this gives me an excuse to ask if anyone else ever hacked around with OSWORD 20 on their BBC Bs at school? Great fun on an Econet and really good for impressing the girls - seriously!

Those were the days

P.

 

[retired_member27]

You lot are showing your age.

As this thread has digressed to being one of nostalgia then I shall continue.

At school our first computer was the excellent BBC, I learnt a lot from that but my first proper computer was the Amstrad 1512 (IBM 8086 cpu running at 8 MHz, 512Kb of ram and a 10mb hard disk) way back in 1986, oh the memories.

 

[philipp]

my first proper computer was the Amstrad 1512 (IBM 8086 cpu running at 8 MHz, 512Kb of ram and a 10mb hard disk) way back in 1986, oh the memories.

And cue the Four Yorkshiremen sketch:

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.

Etc...

P.

 

[stender]

Lol what was that python?

Colin - Sorry I edited balls to bollocks as I felt a bit of a rebel! missed 10 tho'

Don't you miss the sound of loading jet set willy on your spectrum 48k from your tape recorder? such a lovelly sound.

 

[richardells]

you lot are all mad as badgers, besides that basic program on the BBC micro that we all wrote on the test machines in Boots was nowhere near as much fun as the :
10 motor 1
20 motor 0
30 goto 10

Which burned out the cassette deck motor relay if left long enough...
which was why the wisest of us all learned 6502 assembly language, so the motor would burn out before the cashiers could get round the counter and hit escape.

Oh, I lived on the edge alright.

 

[aZooZa]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/04/hackers_can_make_your_pc/

Done that

Read down a little until you find my name (Dale Hubbard).

 

[olebean]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/04/hackers_can_make_your_pc/

Done that

Read down a little until you find my name (Dale Hubbard).

Dale the bad boy again

 

[aZooZa]

Dale the bad boy again

LOL

I'm transparent - call me on 07766 3232 80 anytime.

 

[stender]

Called this morning but it was switched off

 

[aZooZa]

Called this morning but it was switched off

It's back on now. Call me.

Edit: No missed call notification or message.

 

[lookupuk]

you lot are all mad as badgers, besides that basic program on the BBC micro that we all wrote on the test machines in Boots was nowhere near as much fun as the :
10 motor 1
20 motor 0
30 goto 10

Which burned out the cassette deck motor relay if left long enough...
which was why the wisest of us all learned 6502 assembly language, so the motor would burn out before the cashiers could get round the counter and hit escape.

Oh, I lived on the edge alright.

wasn't it *MOTOR ?

Anyone here have a school with their BBC's on a Symbnet?

 

[philipp]

wasn't it *MOTOR ?

Anyone here have a school with their BBC's on a Symbnet?

It was *MOTOR, you could use that relay for all kinds of higher current things too, I made a morse code transmitter, geeky but lots of fun

I didn't use Symbnet, Econet was fab though.

Cheers,

Philip.

 

[olebean]

LOL

I'm transparent - call me on 07766 3232 80 anytime.

huh I'm shocked a bad boy would have an 0898 number

 

[stender]

Called again this morning. Still switched off.....

 

[richardells]

*motor

ha!

you are right! *motor

blimey that brings back memories!

Yeah you could plug in a new chip from watford electronics to get your DFS working - then you could have some SERIOUS storage space - about the same as you've got in the average credit card nowadays.

ha! Thanks for remembering that!
Rich.