Ah, the glory days of computerdom:

LOAD "*",8,1

I didn't even have to look that one up! :scared:

I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!!

:argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: v

I slept through Cobol class because I just couldn't get into it...

Sounds like "dir" on a C64, but it's been about 19 years...

Back in the day, the Atari 800XL had better graphics and a more coherent operating system. Heck, you didn't even need patches back then...

Commodore's Amiga was a superb product though.

I owned Amigas from 1985 until 1992 or so. A wonderful machine with an OS that MS didn't equal until 95 or later.

Great machine! Good OS (DOS 2.5), worked more like a real operating system, none of those cryptic C64 commands. It's still in a box in my garage. Cartridge slot too, a great game machine for its time.

Had to write my own basic programs and save them on cassette tapes - no disc drives, no hard disk, 16K.

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. COBOLFLASHBACK.
DATE-WRITTEN. 05/24/04.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
SOURCE-COMPUTER. SAPPHO-COBOL.
OBJECT-COMPUTER. DU-COBOL.
INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
FILE-CONTROL.
....SELECT FIRST-FILE ASSIGN TO DISK 'BART.TXT'
......ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL.
....SELECT SECOND-FILE ASSIGN TO DISK 'LISA.TXT'
......ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL.
DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.
01 INPUT-REC.
....03 A-MEANINGLESS-VARIABLE.
....03 ANOTHER-MEANINGLESS-VARIABLE PIC X(10).
....05 PORTRZEBIE PIC X(10).
....07 MOXIE PIC X(5).
....09 WHAT-ME-WORRY PIC X(5).
FD SECOND-FILE RECORD CONTATINS 30 CHARACTERS.
01 OUTPUT-REC PIC X(30).
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
BEGIN.
DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
OPEN INPUT F1 OUTPUT SECOND-FILE.
DISPLAY "I USED TO CODE LIKE THIS FOR A LIVING." LINE 10 POSITION 5.
....READ INPUT-FILE AT END DISPLAY 'I ran out of meaningless records to display.'.
....MOVE INPUT-RECORD TO OUTPUT-RECORD.
....WRITE OUTPUT-RECORD.
....CLOSE FIRST-FILE SECOND-FILE.
STOP RUN.
EXIT.

(I think it's functional -- I haven't touched COBOL since 1987.)

Its called "ADD 1 TO COBOL" :evilgrin: