Hello World

[m42]

How many years has it been since your first Hello World? Here’s a nifty and nostalgic collection for you code monkeys:

http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm

[corneo]

(this is going to tell my age.)

My first program I learned was how to make a clock for the TRS-80 III.
When you wrote programs they were un-savable. So you learn how to write them.

Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III
Introduced: July 1980
Price: US $699 base model
US $2495 w/ 32K, dual drives.
CPU: Zilog Z-80, 2.03 MHz
RAM: 4K, 48K max.
Ports: Cassette tape, expansion, serial
Display: 12-inch B/W monitor: 64 X 16 text
Strorage: 0, 1, or 2 internal 178K floppy drives
External cassette @ 500 / 1500 baud
OS: BASIC in ROM, TRS-DOS on disk

[m42]

Heh. It's OK. My first was on an Apple II+ around the same time.

[StarLab]

I have "Hello World SP1" available if anyone requires it.

My first serious attempt at programming was BASIC on a Commodore 64. I moved into Machine Language (Assembly) from there. I was pretty good at it too.

I've burnt many brain cells since then so I never moved into more modern languages. I did dabble with C++ a bit, but as it turned out, I sucked pretty bad at it. lol