Re: Wild computer language names

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From: tn... Tom Neff
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 00:48

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In article <0093D8FA...@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu> ca...@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu (Drifter...) writes:
>In article <15...@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>[A bit of ranting deleted]

That was primo ranting me bucko

>>Compared to that, all
>>you dewy eyed youngsters with your $3,000 personal workstations and your
>>California tans and your soccer leagues are pampered bunnies. :-)
> 
>  Hey, I've been using a Tandy Color Computer (in one form or another) since
>1980! I've just now upgraded... to a Laser 128.
 ^^^^
 howls of derisive laughter

>  Workstations!? We don't need no stinkin' WORKSTATIONS!

1980?  1980!!  So now we're convincing ourselves that 1980 means
anything historical, are we.  Everyone alive and breathing and remotely
disposed towards micro hacking already had a 6502 or 8080 or 6809 based
personal computer by then.  Pong had come and gone as the cool
phenomenon by then; Breakout was old news, and Galaxian was being
written.  Apple was readying the cumbersome /// for its ill fated
release.  IBM was reading the 8088 based PC-1.  We're talking about only
yesterday!

Real programmers hung it up in the Ford Administration.

-- 
"Well! Is somebody a teensy bit low on self-esteem  ===== Tom Neff
  today?" -- Irwin                                  [|||] tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM
"Shuddup. Go away. Scram. Get lost." -- Broom Hilda [|||] uunet!bfmny0!tneff

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From: tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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Subject: Re: Wild computer language names
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Date: 2 Oct 90 00:48:09 GMT
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