bigsinky

those who do and those who don't

DCI Gene Hunt

You forgot to include the words "types of" after 10 and before people.

Binary FAIL

f1_fan

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I first heard that 101101001 years ago

Leslie

I never knew that!

Les

scud8

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You're more than 361 years old?

ScoobyDoo555

First rule of computer club -

"Never talk about computer club".

jonc

Forget binary, you should learn the Joy of Hex!!

TopBanana

Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec

jonc

01001001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011 00101100 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 00101100 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100100 00100001 00101110

f1_fan

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Maybe!

Yours sincerely,

Mr. C MacLeod

windyboy

Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base
Are belong to you
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urban

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What architecture is that from

Yep.
I used to write games for the old C64's & Amiga's
All coding in assembly language with all numbers represented in hex.

ALi-B

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00 is a number too

oh and now you see me: #FAFAFA Now you don't! And yes, I know #F1F1F1 is better, but that would be too subtle LOL

SJ_Skyline

Welcome to 11110110010 Bigsinky

Milamber

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pmsl

douglasb

Excellent!

bigsinky

ahhh but do you remember old 6502 assembly language on the BBC Micro Model B

urban

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Yeah I do.
C64 was 6510 - not a lot of difference really.

68000 on the Amiga was a whole other ball game though.

f1_fan

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Now you are talking.

I remember learning ALGOL and then Fortran and COBOL and thinking how advanced they were compared to Assembler LOL!

TonyBurns

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I prefer hex as you can do things like this FAC0FF

Tony

jonc

I understand the binary language of moisture vaporators....my first job was programming binary load lifters, very similar to vaporators........

ALi-B

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I used to speak fluent Commodore BASIC v2 and v3.5, QBasic, Vbasic, and had a working ability in C+ and Pascal.

Was also very fluent in z80 machine (hex) code and PIC16C.

But I can't understand these modern high-level languages: Its too much like English

bigsinky

ahhh the old motorla 68000. 16 bit computing at its best. Had an old atari ST 512. Always thought it had better games than the commodore amiga. Gawd, the number of Was Not Was compilation discs i had was immense. cut me teeth with Dungeon Master on my atari along with Millenium 2.2.

Sold it for a 486 DX33 with 4MB of Ram and 512MB HDD. Cost me a clean fortune.

I am getting all melancholy those where simpler times

hail-hail

Learned Pascal and C+ at Uni. Got a job with the MOD after I graduated working on Command Systems for Submarines, prog language Corel66. Pretty sure the 66 referred to the year it was first released!!!

Dr Hu

Aaahhhh! -- so it was your bit of code that caused that nuclear sub to run into a scottish island the other week then....

explains a lot

urban

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When I worked for the games development company, one of the partners worked for a missile company where he wrote software for heat seeking missiles.
Now - how the **** do you test that!

Oops, sorry.
Thats was a chimney fire it homed in on

scud8

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My first computer was a Science of Cambridge MK14 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK14). 256 bytes of memory, no assembler, everything had to be hand coded in machine code. It didn't even have an absolute jump instruction, so writing code for it required lots of hex subtraction.

Ant

My friEnd recently had his name tattoo'd In binary

AndyC_772

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On the plus side, at least your code was relocatable. Not that there were many places to put it!

I used to be quite the expert on the BBC micro and, later on, the Archimedes. I pretty much stopped programming the day I sold my A5000 for a PC - which didn't come with any programming languages built in - and went down the route of tinkering with hardware instead.

dunx

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"There can be only one..."

or zero !

dunx