draculaz opened this issue on Feb 24, 2005 ยท 99 posts
drawbridgep posted Wed, 02 March 2005 at 9:31 AM
I started with a ZX81. I was so excited, but my mum looked at it and thought it looked like a calculator without a display. Then I got a VIC 20 3.5k RAM! Then an Atari 512, which I bluetacked another 512k to get a 1024k RAM (I kid you not, the bluetack would melt and it would jump back to 512k after a while). Then got my first PC. A 286 I think. As for PASCAL. I did my A-Level in PASCAL. It was the first and last program I ever wrote in it. A simulation of a eco-system. Had Carnivores, herbivores, plants, all of which you had to balance over years (numbers wise) to keep the system going. Also had random things like fires, droughts and rain and even programmed a flood which would sometimes kill everything. I failed anyway, but I liked it. The bigger blow was the other guy in my class (there were only two) was an exchange student and couldn't speak English and he PASSED. His program worked out the refection of lenses or something dull. I mean, my program killed things, what more could you want?! OK, sorry, got OT a bit there, I'm still sore.