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Thanks to the internet, one can read old electronics and computer magazines from the first issues in the 1950s to the last in the 1990s or 2000s.
I was looking for hardware projects and programs for my old computer, as well as some time travel back to a time when everything was new and programming was fun.
I also found some issues I owned back then, including this one.[^]
Isn't that a great robot? My only trouble with such robots all this time has been that they are blind and deaf and that processors used to be too slow to process the input from the sensors.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 22-Nov-16 18:07pm.
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CDP1802 wrote: Isn't that a great robot?
Ah, the S3E3!
(Sorry; my head is still full of trademark gubbins.)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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CDP1802 wrote: one can read old electronics and computer magazines
Ok Lookie[^] - an article that predates Code Project. I wrote that in 1983. Gads, I was 21.
Marc
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Ah the commodore 64, my first computer. My first program was on that and it estimated the number of tiles and other resources required to cover a roof.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I remember reading that at the time!
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Besinger wrote: I remember reading that at the time!
Seriously?!?!? Wow. I was a guest author for Personal Electronic Transactions, the guy who did the regular column, Gregory Yob, was in many ways a great mentor to me, we actually roomed together for a while after I got myself kicked out of my mother's house. 
Marc
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Yep, I was in the Air Force playing around with a friend's Commodore 64 at the time and writing COBOL for the USAF.
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CDP1802 wrote: My only trouble with such robots all this time has been that they are blind and deaf and that processors used to be too slow to process the input from the sensors.
Yeah?
Well Margaret Hamilton[^] was able to put some humans on the moon with very little processing power during the Apollo 11 program[^].
The truth is that software engineers here in 2016 are several magnitudes less-efficient than our predecessors.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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CDP1802 wrote: Thanks to the internet, one can read old electronics and computer magazines from the first issues in the 1950s to the last in the 1990s or 2000s
Just one question: where? :puppyeyes:
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Here[^]
they have even more, like Radio Electronics or Byte.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Thanks a lot, now I can be even more geeky than I usually am!
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Cool stuff actually 
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Mmmm! I have been thinking that some of those 70's - 80's robot plans in EW etc could be built with modern componets and upgraded with micro-controllers etc... I want an R2 unit! 
Is there a link to the contents...
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Try this one[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Cheers! As the French would say Merky Bucket!
modified 23-Nov-16 5:46am.
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Check it out, the book Plip-Plop-Pond is #56 in Amazon Best-sellers under the Computer Programming Category.
What are you devs reading out there?
Amazon Best Sellers: Best Computer Programming[^]
Edit
Wait, it fell to #66 now. Hmm...
modified 22-Nov-16 14:31pm.
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An existing review, with minor edits:
I'm aware of the importance of introducing the concept of programming early on to get little ones prepared for coding one day and to teach them that static typing is enjoyable. For junior devs, that means getting them used to feeling types (sometimes tasting, it can be hard to get them not to do that and it's how they explore), holding them and encouraging them to look at the pictures of compiler errors.
Marc
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Yes, everyone should be learning the newest programming language : plip-plop.
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Nice find. It would have taken forever to find (read: guess) the key:value pair.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Isn't that morbid a bit that what makes your wonderful is falling back to Win 8 from Win 10... I'm sure Microsoft just as happy as you are
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So, which bit takes me to Win7?
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Going back from winio to anything is an improvement -- even win 3.11 or pencil & paper!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I submitted my Christmas wish list to SWMBO today.
It's a short, but expensive list. I wanna put a 671 blower on my car. Approximate cost - $8700.
An alternative (also submitted) is new underwear.
I wonder which one she'll pick.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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671 Blower: $8700
Underwear: $40
Hmm...
Get ready for new underpants!
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