Two Stop Bits | if, curious as I was, about the TATUNG Einstein and why use it. in the end havin...

bmonkey325 5 days ago | parent

if, curious as I was, about the TATUNG Einstein and why use it. in the end having a separate system to edit/compile could save precious resources on the target machine for running the app without having to host the assembler and source code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatung_Einstein

qingcharles 2 days ago
I'm still wracked with guilt over an incident of wanton vandalism in 1984 when, as a child, I came across an Einstein on floor display in a store and promptly figured out how to reformat the boot floppy and basically killed their demo box.
Hopefully they had a backup? :(
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- bmonkey325 2 days ago
  maybe not as destructive, but I can confirm to you that I used to vandalize any Micro on display that booted to a basic prompt with the program:
  10 PRINT "Van Halen kicks ass ";
  20 GOTO 10
  It was the 80s after all...
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  - qingcharles 2 days ago
    Oh god, you too. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
    10 PRINT "CHAZ WOZ ERE " 20 GOTO 10
    EVERY. ONE.
    It was the nerd version of graffiti tagging. Definitely the first code I learned to write as a 5 year old kid :)
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