Amazingly Accurate Tech Predictions
Not really RV related but I just had to post this somewhere.. :@ I just watched an old TV show called "Beachcombers". Since was a Canadian show many may not have heard of it? This particular epis...
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Popsie wrote:
I wrote my first computer programs in machine language on the Bendix G-15 in the late 1990's.
The user interface was a teletype, and the external input/output and "permanent" storage was punched paper tape and the teletype printer.
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That was "old tech" for the late 1990's. At that time I was using an IBM XT with terminal emulation software as a terminal to connect to an IBM 370 mainframe and writing code in 370 Assembler and PL/1. Even that tech was old since IBM had already stopped production of the XT once they went with the PS/2 line of PCs in 1987.
I first wrote code in machine language on an HP 2000 mini in 1976. No terminal, no keyboard, no paper tape, no printer just the front panel switches for input and the front panel lights for output.
As far as the TV show, it amazes me how effortless they make it appear for these "hackers" on TV. The one I really like is from the movie "Independence Day" where Jeff Goldblum's character is able to write a virus for an ALIEN OS that he has never seen before!
