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[joebloggs]

Ah yes Joe - I was PEEKING and POKING a lot in those days!

My first 'puter was a VIC20 BTW. 3k of memory don't you know.

Al.

vic 20 , i did a few games for that in the early 80's, for a very famous buget label mastertronic ...

still owe me some

probably no one has realised i've not been online for 4 days

been busy doing me relational database assignment

in near 30yrs of IT, by far the hardest subject i've ever done .

[KeithD]

in near 30yrs of IT, by far the hardest subject i've ever done .

I use it in PHP, only took me about 3hrs to pick it up. Very powerful stuff though, although I still use text DAT files for some things.

[joebloggs]

I use it in PHP, only took me about 3hrs to pick it up. Very powerful stuff though, although I still use text DAT files for some things.

theory side is a pain in the scouser keith, not the pratical side, i grew up using dbase2&3 when i was younger

theory side is heavy going, boring conceptual data models, distributed database management, E-R diagrams, normalization etc...

i knew i should have done wireless networking

[Alan]

Wrote some programs in BASIC myself in those days. Had to save them on cassette tape!!!!!

First one I wrote was an adventure called 'Gremda.'

2.6k in length and took about 20 mins to load from tape!!!

LAUGH?????

I never did!

Al.

[joebloggs]

Wrote some programs in BASIC myself in those days. Had to save them on cassette tape!!!!!

First one I wrote was an adventure called 'Gremda.'

2.6k in length and took about 20 mins to load from tape!!!

LAUGH?????

I never did!

Al.

well worse than the vic20 for loading from tape was the zx81, speccy and the atari xl range, could take 45 mins and fail at the end


hows life treating you in the phils AL ?