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  1. Backwoods Savage

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    It was a Tandy/Radio Shack but I don't remember the model number. Seems like TRS-80 or something similar. I'd have to dig it out to be sure.
     
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    Shoot Gary_602z I was mistaken perhaps. All this time I thought Sinclair was a gasoline brand.
     
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    I thought the I stood for Instruction rather than Intrinsic. Maybe it depend on which side of the tracks you came from?! :rofl: :lol:
     
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    Ah yes, the goto that instructors hated. They always wanted the if then gosub routines and you got marked down if you used a goto command.
     
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    Right. I went to school about 50 years BC.
     
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    I hated those slide rules. But used to have a ball competing with calculators when just using addition. I fondly remember adding a column of 50 double numbers and finished before the fastest guy got half the numbers entered on his calculator. I used to have a ball doing that and now need a calculator to figure out what 2 + 2 is...
     
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    I could be wrong dennis! it was 30 plus years on old apple II before they got better ones... I did not look up just what I remembered from a test a long while ago:whistle: I am pretty sure then I was on the wrong side of tracks! not sure... still might be:D
     
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    I believe you are correct!
     
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    I hated slide rulers too! Never was any good with them!
     
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    I looked it up he is correct! I guess Dennis being right should be a pretty safe bet!

    Also correct on using go sub instead of goto commands! it was developed at Dartmouth I should be :emb:
     
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    Ha! I remember that brand, along with Gulf and Zephyr.:D

    Gary
     
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    I don't know of we had gosub on the CoCo series, if we did it wasn't in the level one book I got with the machine.
     
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    :dex: Been away a few days!!! :dex:

    :dex: Well worth the wait!! Merry Christmas Adam!! :dex:
     
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    Object Oriented Prgramming was big while I was in school. Write mini-modules that get called from the main program to do repetitive tasks. I did a lot of that in BASIC and C++. It really cleans up the code in large programs and is well worth the effort for all but the simplest programs. Of course, it was impossible to do this back in the days of GWBASIC and all the other BIOS BASIC interpreters that mandated line numbers. Those were fun as a lot of my first machines (dumpster finds) I could get to boot to BIOS BASIC and goof around on.

    Taught myself BASIC during my early teens, unfortunately got bored with it before I could get my hands on a compiler. Interpreted BASIC was too slow for what I wanted to start coding! In HS, our programming class used Turbo Pascal which was interesting. During my late teens and my one year of college, C++ was the language of choice until I decided I liked wrenches and pay checks better than keyboards and student loans. :rofl: :lol:
     
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    You took the right path Brian
     
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    And what about Farmer's?
     
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    Yep had one of those in town also.
     
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    Hey, what about Cities Service? That has to be a really old one like Phillips 66.
     
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    I remember Cities not sure if we had one though. Of course we had Standard Oil.
     
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