Today I’ve made a trip back in those days where we had to use ASCII Codes for Borders and Windows or Interrupt 33 Registers to recieve Mouse Clicks and X / Y Positions…
sigh
Those where the times…
Anyone knows what a Sharp MZ-80 K is? 10 Minutes to load the OS…
Not sure what a Sharp MZ-80 K is… but TurboBasic was the first tool that truly got my creative programming juices flowing…
Yes! That’s my really first programming language Turbo Basic (I do not count GW-BASIC as real programming language because it was crap not useable in school or business). Nice to see someone else with same vita 
i still have Turbo Pascal 6 and QuickBasic 4.5 in folders here.
can’t run them though because Win8.1 refuses.
might have to get a DOS 6.22 VM going!
+1… if it can’t build .exe files then it aint that practical…
Have you tried DosBOX? Works great for emulating DOS apps on Windows. Used it to play Hero’s Quest I the other day.
I remember that I shelled out GW BASIC Files “gw-basic.exe myProg.BAS” but indeed this was not practical…
Btw. My first PC was a Schneider Euro PC with MS-DOS 3.3, 512 KB RAM, i8088 @ 9.54 MHz CPU and 3,5" 720K MB Floppy Disk. Harddisks had sizes between 10 or 20 MB and were way to far to expansive for me in those days…
The “mass-storage” was a analog tapedrive… Ok, who remembers those 
mmmm you mean LOAD “", 8 instead of LOAD "”,8,1 ?
Oh, the C64 was way in the future…
Damn we are old bricks I guess…
+1
But my kids keep me feel young At least I still know what they are talking about.
my wife first computer is a 4.77Mhz 2 5.25 inches floppy drive. she try all the command e.g. dir and format and kill the DOS disk.
After using a few months, finally get a 20MB hard disk.
[quote=114128:@Richard Duke]my wife first computer is a 4.77Mhz 2 5.25 inches floppy drive. she try all the command e.g. dir and format and kill the DOS disk.
After using a few months, finally get a 20MB hard disk.[/quote]
What a rocket!!! my first was a TRS-80 running at a blistering 1.4MHZ, but the 15 second boot up didnt compensate for the 30 minute program load via the cassette drive. Did I mention the massive library of titles on tape? 6 titles from memory.
She used a TRS-80 when learn Basic programming in computer college in Malaysia. That will be before the 8088 pc compatible.
That’s nothing - The first computer I used, was called an Abacus, and everything had to be computed by hand (literally) !!
Why is this thread starting to soud like the three yorkshiremen from Monty Python?
did anyone watch the monty python live on cinema on 20th??
actually it was 4 yorkshiremen. and it was on the live show shown 3 days ago.