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In my first programming class we had these workstations with an 8080A, an octal keypad, and 3 rows of 8 LEDs (with pin-outs if you wanted to be fancy and wire up a 7-segment). I can't seem to find it on Google, though.
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My first computer (actually my employers) was a Burroughs main frame (!) with 9.6k memory, no disk, mag tapes, no operating system.
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My first computer was a simple Base 10 analog machine. It had 2 parts attached to the end of my arms. I still have it and use it when I don't want to be bothered with an IDE to hammer screws in or pound nails with a screwdriver.
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I think that should be classed as 'digit'al, not analogue.
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Fingers? You were lucky to have fingers. Luxury!
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I used a similar set up called a D5 if I remember right, 6802 based though
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I can't resist as well...
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX-81, with the 16KB add on memory module. That and a realistic cassette deck were all that were needed to ensure productivity never faltered.
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I can't resist as well: started with a PDP-8 with 8kB Memory (real magnetic rings with 4 wires...) and punch tape.
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Me too! 70s kids REPRESENT!
(I was pretty jealous later when all my friends got Commodore 64s. 
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Whoa! With that sort of advanced capability, you'll even be able to run "Adventure For The Stupid" (tm):
10 print "You are in a cave..."
20 line input I$
30 goto 10
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Proceed with care! Antiques may be worth more than you think! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Hey. KSS, remember?
If you're going to use words like B@@@C then take it to the SoapBox
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It could always be worse.
You could be required to build an app with nothing but Access and macros. It's like opening that nice red toolbox and finding only a bag of sporks.
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How many sporks are we talking about here?
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It's a bonus bag, there's at least fifty in there.
With a little time, practice and the incandescent bulb in your desklamp, you can morph them into barely adequate approximations of necessary tools.
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OK, I can work with that. Thanks.
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Is there a macro that could be used to call Access VBA?
"Wow, you did all of this with a single line of macros."
[and a few hundred lines of "real" code]
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Tempting, but the boss at the time was too savvy for that kind of sneakiness.
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if you depend on a IDE, you have problems.
if he is that extremist that chooses a solution over a IDE, he has one too.
I almost never use IDE's basically because I have no time to lose learning all the tricks I already know on my text editor.
I really hate them for the dependency they create on my colleagues that can't think out a bug without an IDE.
the almost part its the technological part.
if I'm codding java or c# I'll use one.
if I'm codding php or javascript, I'm faster at my text editor and I'm used to deal with the bugs on a different way.
this is personal to me. my mind got used to this way over the years and changing it now would cost a lot to me and my employee.
maybe that guy who told you that has the same problem.
his difference from me is the lack of willingness to try.
because if my boss tells me use this or that language, I'll put the learning of the IDE on cost of learning the language (win win for me).
so, the lack of willingness to try, thats a problem he has.
your's is the ability to think that there is no coding without an IDE.
you would probably fail at some exams I had when I wasn't even at college (coding tests, yes). 
Err...say what?
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Mookie Baylock wrote: your's is the ability to think that there is no coding without an IDE.
If you read what I said properly you'll see that's not what I said. When I started programming I had to write it out by hand to start with so I'm perfectly at home using everything from the command line to a sophisticated IDE. I prefer the IDE because it makes my working life easier & gives me access to other useful tool sand technologies all in one easy to use package and because I have not got some outdated and ridiculously romantic notion about development. I am a professional and have been since probably before you were even a zygote.
Fine, if you want to use the command line or notepad, go for it - it's great when you're a script kiddie 'coding' php or some other scripting language. For real coding, you can't beat a well made and easy to use IDE. 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: For real coding
yep, you two really make a pair.
talk about "if you read what I said"...
if age is your best argument to defend your point of view instead of understanding that to some "languages" a IDE it's just clutter and to others it's a good handy tool, well, keep talking to your friend, you're a match.
besides, this zygote didn't belittled someone experienced opinion based on their age, because, if you're older than me you should know that rationality beats that every day.
maybe you failed to learn that on those long long years programming real code.
that might be another problem you have.
signs of oversized ego belittling everything you don't like so you feel better about what you do.
but your're not alone in that.
some guys buy oversized cars to solve the same problem.
anyway, this is me guessing stuff about you like you did about me.
you might even be a good person just with a rage.
I will stop now, because you know how they say, you will beat this zygote in experience. *grins*
Err...say what?
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Wow! Does no one actually read something or understand it before they respond. Plainly, in your case, they don't. Have very nice notepad life.
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Mookie Baylock wrote: I almost never use IDE's basically because I have no time to lose learning all the tricks I already know on my text editor.
That's the fallacy of motion: you're too busy digging that ditch with a shovel to learn how to use the backhoe, even though the combined time to learn the backhoe controls and use it to dig the ditch is less than the time it will take you to dig the ditch by hand. But hey, you've already got the shovel in your hand, and the backhoe is way over there by the shed, so let's just mumble something about how real men don't need machines to do their work and get to it.
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yep, you're right.
never disagreed with that.
but still, I won't use a caterpillar to dig a sand castle.
unless I want to live in the sand castle which doesn't sound that wise either.
the real problem here is extremism.
when you only have a hammer, that hammer is the solution to everything.
the guy that said he won't code c# because of having to use a IDE has his hammer and refuses to leave it. he can solve anything with it.
the other guys do exactly like him, but with a different hammer. their hammer.
well, let them hammer themselves until one gets tired. :P
Err...say what?
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Sometimes tools get in the way. You're the elitist here.
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