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For me, that's no big deal: 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" Even the horrible crap I wrote as an novice is probably less embarrassing to me that the stuff I wrote as a
by scarecrowbob 8y ago
For me, that's no big deal:
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
Even the horrible crap I wrote as an novice is probably less embarrassing to me that the stuff I wrote as a journeyman who shoulda known better.
Thankfully, the most embarrassing things are, like, spending 2 days configuring postfix and not realizing that I could just read the log files and it tells me specifically what isn't working. A valuable lesson, but embarrassment has its cost.
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoHahaha, mine: mov ah, 2 mov dl, 7 int 21 int 20 Discovering that I could write my own programs with debug.com was earth shaking. Picked up some decade old book on it at Half Price Books (which went well with my decade old machine -- an 80s model IBM with integrated monochrome green screen) and never looked back.
- sedatk 8y agobeep!
- lbruder 8y agoThat would emit a beep from the speaker, right? So long ago...
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoNone other than beep.com!
- foldr 8y agoSpeaking of embarrassing errors, your comment just sent my pre-coffee self on a brief and fruitless visit to http://debug.com http://debug.com
- ktRolster 8y agoI can smell your program. All that new hardware around me. The smell of dot matrix ink.
- onemoresoop 8y agoYes! I remember my first experience with a PC in the 80s was with a Robotron 8086 PC. It did emanate a smell and I could hear interesting mechanical sounds from inside. The motherboard was huge and it had a small 14 inch monochrome green monitor on top of it.
- fit2rule 8y agoThe first assembly program I wrote and got paid a handsome sum for: jmp FFF0 The client was amazed that I'd figured out a way to automate the ctrl-alt-del monkeys that had been hired to reboot everyones machines, for some reason, every night ..
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