I have a programming book from 1961! :-P

[PhatBoiCollier]

I have Volume 1, Issue 1 of "Amiga Computing" and that is a REAL funny read.  I cant beleive we used to pay so much for dot matrix printers, 512k mem and a 10MB hard drive!  :-o

[iamaboringperson]

PhatBoiCollier wrote:
I have Volume 1, Issue 1 of "Amiga Computing" and that is a REAL funny read.  I cant beleive we used to pay so much for dot matrix printers, 512k mem and a 10MB hard drive!  :-o

Back then, an extra half-meg of RAM was always a good investment! ;-)

[Turambar]

The computer systems module i did in uni was based on a processor architecture the lecturer made up on the spot. Is it any wonder i failed? I mean try finding reference books forsomething your lecturer made up.

[Framiga]

@iamaboringperson

My mother told me that around 1950, IBM already had a training school here in Milan.

Ciao

[jeffimix]

Yeah but it's not like IBM always made computers, they used to make all sorts of mechanical crap, like time punch clocks.

[Framiga]

@jeffimix

no, no IBM training school for its employers computers (first enormous systems, big like a room)

Ciao

[iamaboringperson]

I think IBM once had schools and town's

[Dan]

Turambar wrote:
The computer systems module i did in uni was based on a processor architecture the lecturer made up on the spot. Is it any wonder i failed? I mean try finding reference books forsomething your lecturer made up.

Then there is the other type which only uses examples from the book kind of pointless. :destroy:
My teacher at a javacourse was one of the creators of Simula. He hardly used the book at all and always said that Simula is better at whatever he was covering in the lecture. He had written his own simlpyfied IO-class for java because he didn´t like the one the other teachers used. :-)