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Comment Re:The Commodore 64 was ahead of its time... (Score 1) 42

For some reason there were very few Commodore 64s in my area when I was a kid. Most of us had TRS-80 CoCos with a few TI994/As added in for good measure. In 1984 my high school introduced their first computer class and it was filled with 20 Commodore 64s, ugh. They were clunky beasts and the damn diskette drives were slower than my CoCo's tape drive. Now, if someone were to offer a Tandy CoCo3 today with modern amenities (yes, I realize the CoCo SDC exists among other modern add-ons) I would be interested. Man, computing back in the early 80s was a blast.

Comment Re:First thing you ordered? (Score 1) 45

A book for my company's owner in 1995. I was the company IT admin and he told me to order a book on Amazon for him. I thought it was odd that he was interested in the Amazon. He then pointed out that it was a web site. First time I had heard of it. It was great until about 2015. I have avoided the Amazon ever since. Nothing but a scammy Asian flea market now.

Comment Re:Interesting language (Score 1) 111

Back in 1989 when I was in the Marine Corps I had some down time so I decided to take a few x86 assembler college classes to pass the time. My instructor worked for the DoD on base and seeing how I took to Assembler so quickly he gave me a copy of Ada83 on 5.25" diskettes. He told me Ada is one of those languages that will endure and I should learn it. I dabbled in it a bit and even revisited it when Ada95 came around. I was more fascinated with languages like Turbo Pascal at the time (doh). I'm not surprised to see Ada is still ranked so high given what my instructor told me all those years ago.

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