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NailedOn said:
This thread is like a non-zero completion code.
But geeks, I ask you this contentious question:
Captain Kirk completed the self-destruct sequence of USS Enterprise with which code?
Destruct sequence 1, code 1-1A.But geeks, I ask you this contentious question:
Captain Kirk completed the self-destruct sequence of USS Enterprise with which code?
Edited by NailedOn on Wednesday 26th January 11:51
Then after the others (Sequence 2 and Sequence 3, unsurprisingly)
Code zero zero zero, Destruct, Zero.
/nerd.
Havent read ALL the pages as I lost the will to live so this may have come up already.
From my days in IT support ~ 20 years ago.
Failed
Under
Continuous
Test
I pointed this out the the IT bloke who came down to fix my laptop (and failed) last week. He just looked blankly at me.... so I showed him how to fix the laptop (with the parts he'd brought along) and sent him on his way.
From my days in IT support ~ 20 years ago.
Failed
Under
Continuous
Test
I pointed this out the the IT bloke who came down to fix my laptop (and failed) last week. He just looked blankly at me.... so I showed him how to fix the laptop (with the parts he'd brought along) and sent him on his way.
Pigeon said:
As long as you could get your head round doing absolutely everything in a stack-based manner. I find it strange that among all the various excuses I've seen for why it wasn't a success, I've never seen mentioned the initial impenetrability of it. The jump-in-and-f
k-around-and-get-something-to-happen characteristic of the average BASIC home micro just wasn't there.
A shop in town had a whole bunch of different home micros on display all hooked up to TVs for people to come in and play around on. BBCs, C64s, Ataris, Orics, etc, etc, plus a Jupiter Ace. People used to do all sorts on the BASIC machines, but they eventually took the Ace off display because nobody could think of anything more to do with it than type VLIST, then get bored, and pull the keys off it.
The Oric, of course, made it possible to write stuff like this (I may have misremembered the intricacies of Oric Basic, but never mind):
10 FOR X=1 TO 60000: NEXT: REM Time delay to get out of the shop
20 X=INT(RND(1)*4)
30 IF X=0 THEN BEEP
40 IF X=1 THEN PING
50 IF X=2 THEN ZAP
60 IF X=3 THEN EXPLODE
70 GOTO 20
...Beats "Stairway to Heaven" in music shops.
Surprisingly, nobody ever got shot.
Dear god that brings back memories. The number of times I did that... k-around-and-get-something-to-happen characteristic of the average BASIC home micro just wasn't there.A shop in town had a whole bunch of different home micros on display all hooked up to TVs for people to come in and play around on. BBCs, C64s, Ataris, Orics, etc, etc, plus a Jupiter Ace. People used to do all sorts on the BASIC machines, but they eventually took the Ace off display because nobody could think of anything more to do with it than type VLIST, then get bored, and pull the keys off it.
The Oric, of course, made it possible to write stuff like this (I may have misremembered the intricacies of Oric Basic, but never mind):
10 FOR X=1 TO 60000: NEXT: REM Time delay to get out of the shop
20 X=INT(RND(1)*4)
30 IF X=0 THEN BEEP
40 IF X=1 THEN PING
50 IF X=2 THEN ZAP
60 IF X=3 THEN EXPLODE
70 GOTO 20
...Beats "Stairway to Heaven" in music shops.
Surprisingly, nobody ever got shot.
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