Learned Fortran on an old TI-99; forgot Fortran; learned to draw, paint, sculpt, and play violin; learned how to merge code and art, turned it into my UX/Front-end dev Frankenthing.
I remember pulling out a book and having to use it to help with writing the Fortran software to make the Hangman game, then save it to cassette. The old Classic99 games* were a huge upgrade from that, and floppy disks were something I wouldn't have until sometime later on.
The worst? Wanting to play music with the cassette player and hearing the software you wrote play.
Learned Fortran on an old TI-99; forgot Fortran; learned to draw, paint, sculpt, and play violin; learned how to merge code and art, turned it into my UX/Front-end dev Frankenthing.
I just saw Google Tone in the Chrome Web Store. It's like the old cliche 'everything old is new again'.
I mentioned how saving software on a cassette tape ended up saving data that a tape player translated into sound above. Theoretically, with the right equipment and software, you'd be able to translate the sound back into the original code. I'm guessing Google Tone works on that principle, but plays URLs instead of Fortran, like my old cassette tapes did.
Sorry all, I couldn't help myself and had to share that.
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I remember pulling out a book and having to use it to help with writing the Fortran software to make the Hangman game, then save it to cassette. The old Classic99 games* were a huge upgrade from that, and floppy disks were something I wouldn't have until sometime later on.
The worst? Wanting to play music with the cassette player and hearing the software you wrote play.
*mainbyte.com/ti99/howto/classic99....
I feel really old, now.
Bad me, replying to myself ...
I just saw Google Tone in the Chrome Web Store. It's like the old cliche 'everything old is new again'.
I mentioned how saving software on a cassette tape ended up saving data that a tape player translated into sound above. Theoretically, with the right equipment and software, you'd be able to translate the sound back into the original code. I'm guessing Google Tone works on that principle, but plays URLs instead of Fortran, like my old cassette tapes did.
Sorry all, I couldn't help myself and had to share that.