First Application

Involved Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 484

Back in the 80's at some stage I remember my dad coming home with our very first computer.It was a high performance Tandy color computer....arrrrrgh I still remember the beautiful green screen lol

Dad rang the other day and found a bit of paper under the house while they were cleaning up........................

It's a little app i coded in Tandy Extended Color Basic, I use to sit infront of this thing for hours........can you tell I was young

Code:




10 REM I like cars and fords


11 A$= "Fords go fast"


12 B$= "Do they go fast (1=yes/ 2=no)?"


20 On BRK goto 4000


30 CLS80


40 goto 50


50 REM Hi everyone


60 gosub 3000: goto100


100 ford=1 to 100: Next D


110 For a = 1 to 1000000


200 print A$


210 next A


2000 goto 4000


3000 return


4000 Print B$: Input c


4010 If C=1 then 4020 else 100


4020 ENDd

The good old girl had wait for it.....

CPU Motorola 68b09e (uses an external clock generator)

SPEED 2 MHz (0.89mhz under RS-DOS for compatability with FD expansion unit) Shocked

RAM: 128 KB (up to 512 KB. There were 1MB and 2MB upgrade boards for posh people)

TEXT MODES 32x16, 40x25, 80x25

COLORS 64

I/O PORTS Tape, Composite Video, analog RGB connector for use with Tandy CM-8 monitor, 2 joystick ports, cartridge slot, RS232

OS: with optional disk drive : RS-DOS, OS-9 Level 2 was also popular

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:47 am

ohhhhhhhhhh I found a picture

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:11 am

ah, now I'm starting to miss my Apple IIe

and my good old friend the Amiga 500

and I really thought I was "stylin" with the Amiga 2000

and then they went out of business Sad

registered · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:21 am

WOW, I have never used such a relic... My first computer was a Dell Pentium 3 with 128MB RAM.
Cheers, for the good old days Cheers

PS: Feel like a naughty little boy after seeing this ROTFL

registered · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:15 am

My first PC was with an Intel 8086 CPU
The 4.77-MHz 8086 microprocessor, which was created by two engineers in just three weeks, was introduced in 1978. I was born in 1978 but it took two parents 9 months to create me!

Those were the days Laughing

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:29 pm

My first PC was Ergo Pro Desktop Fujitsu from 1998.
P II, 64 MB RAM

He still works with 96 MB RAM and WinMe. Just a bit slow.

Value today around 11 Euro /14,27 Dollar

but he is not for sale Smile

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:59 pm

sad... I was willing to offer 10 US$ ROTFL

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:06 pm

No chance also you would need a special introducion into WinMe and how to handle the out of memory message and a few other things. Razz

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:59 am

What? No Radio Shack T80? Cut my teeth on that one (well, programming/PC teeth). Wink