Coding with the Community — Episode 1

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Hey - I have, not an autoexec.bat, but a backup.bat which runs twice a day, so DOS and batch files lives on.

one line is "robocopy "c:\users\jmj43\Documents" "j:\win10 rc\jmj43\Documents" /FP /XX /NDL /NP /TEE /s /z /e /w:0 /r:0 /log+:j:\robolog_Documents.txt"

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Lol...maybe cls wasn't part of the syntax of basic and a false memory (part of dos syntax..was it part of quickBasic?). I was about 8 at the time..I think :man_shrugging:

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I recall CLS as being in most basics I used.

I still have 3-1/4" floppies loaded with my "must have" utilities for DOS. Grep was one of my favorites. There were literally thousands. I think the one that has endured the longest is the CRC checksum. Is that still used today to validate file transfers?

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vlcsnap-2020-04-03-17h19m00s853
vlcsnap-2020-04-03-17h19m00s853752×416 369 KB

Do I win? :rofl:

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Wang? I was born in Lowell and have lived in the town next door for most of my life. :grin:

My first computer was a keyboard thing that I had to connect to my tv and cassette tape deck. Next up was an IBM PC JR with a Bernoulli Box, color monitor and my first printer! Learned Basic and then COBOL on the PC jr. Loved that thing!

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Thanks to everyone showing how old I really am! My first was a TRS80 color computer with 4K memory and a cassette tape. Upgraded it to 4 5.25 floppies. Used to copy stuff between floppies just for the sake of doing it lol.

Somebody mentioned punch cards.... I remember those in college while I was learning Fortran and cobol. Ahhh those were the days.

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Yes. We moved to Nashua in the early 80’s. I haven’t lived there for a very long time, though...

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That's a blast from the past. Do they still exist? When I was in grad school (late '80s), the secretaries still had Wang word processors. I think my Dad might have had one too .....

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Wang has been out of business for a very long time.

They had some pretty funny tag lines back in the day, like

“My Wang Does Wonders”
&
“My Wang Never Goes Down”

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First computer I got to work on late 70's was a Computer Automation LSI-3 16 bit, 16K memory ($2K for memory alone) with Pertec 8" floppy drives connected to a Teletype ASR33 with paper tape reader. Later on we connected a CRT terminal and a Centronics 101 printer. Whole thing cost around $10K.

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I never knew he did this. Is it on YouTube or something?

I'll be watching :grin:

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The stream URL has been added! Looking forward to seeing you all there! :slight_smile:

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Thanks Adam.

Going to have to re-watch this later.

Btw - was their a YouTube link for this? I couldn’t figure out how to open in the YouTube app so couldn’t see the comments being made.

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Thank YOU!

The link can be found here

And thanks to everyone who tuned in! :slight_smile: A fun (long) first episode!

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Thanks for this Adam. I was only able to catch the last 10 min, but will look forward to watching from the beginning later today. Nicely done! :+1:t2:

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Thank-you Adam, very good information

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Thanks, this helped a lot. I appreciate you taking the time to do this. Looking forward to more episodes!

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A fine lesson Adam. Unfortunately I had to leave before the end, but I'll catch it in a replay. Thanks so much.

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thanks @adamkempenich was great :slight_smile:. Where are you planning on uploading the code to?

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Thanks! It was a fun time :slight_smile:

I've uploaded the primer code to:

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