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Re: Newbie: Where to start to learn QL assembly language?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:13 am
by Ruptor
Oh don't remind me! I had nightmares of my first year Lab assignment putting Hex OP codes in to a Z80 to get it to add two numbers. I was elated when they introduced us to the assembler even when it took ages to turn the 8" floppies to generate the code.
Re: Newbie: Where to start to learn QL assembly language?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:38 am
by tofro
Probably more an exercise in humility than CS
Re: Newbie: Where to start to learn QL assembly language?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 12:10 pm
by NormanDunbar
I used to, occasionally, boot an ICL 1966 mainframe with the IPL switches. (IPL = Initial Program Load.) Circa 1983.
Cheers,
Norm.
Re: Newbie: Where to start to learn QL assembly language?
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:51 am
by ql_freak
Ruptor wrote:Oh don't remind me! I had nightmares of my first year Lab assignment putting Hex OP codes in to a Z80 to get it to add two numbers. I was elated when they introduced us to the assembler even when it took ages to turn the 8" floppies to generate the code. :D
My worst "thing" while I was a student: Programmed a Fortran program (66 I think) on a computer, where you have to input the code via punch cards(!). The program did run (correctly!). I've bundled the cards with a rubber band. Sometimes the rubber was defect... All cards dropped to the floor, fully unordered :-(
Re: Newbie: Where to start to learn QL assembly language?
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 8:41 pm
by polka
As a student, my better "worst thing" was to program FORTRAN on a formatted paper sheet and have it corrected by my teacher with red ink.
POLKa
Indeed, my engineering school did not own a single computer at that time : got one the next year, where you had to program on punched cards.
(but we had also good sliding rules !)