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From: Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: IBM 5120 (was: Re: Find "py.exe" & copy it to "Python" (flat, no extension).)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 02:16:37 -0400
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vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
>On 26 Jun 2024 23:27:55 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
><le3mfrFgonvU1@mid.individual.net>:
>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:06:52 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> 
>>> Anyway, Wikipedia can be used to get a quick handle on a topic, and an
>>> easy link to the basics. But one needs to read the literature for a
>>> more complete story.
>> 
>> I use Wikipedia references quite a bit as a quick overview of a subject
>> and even kick in during their fund drives. Something like
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5120
>> 
>> is non-controversial and accurate.
>
>I think this is the system I first has a paying job programming.  The 
>system I remember had 3 "partitions" that could run 3 different programs 
>simultaneously, and came with a DE/RPG II compiler, which I used
>to write software for a Farmers Insurance agent.
>
>Sure beat my previous job at Burger King!  This was at the end of
>High School, and a bit past graduation.
>
>Compiles took forever though...I remember starting a
>compile, setting a wind-up alarm clock, and napping
>for 90 minutes while the thing cranked along at a snail's pace.
>The printer would output each line it was compiling...maybe one
>every 10 seconds, iirc.  (This was 44 years ago!)
>
>I don't remember the system having BASIC though.


GWBASIC on my friend's Tandy DOS PC was the first thing to turn me
onto coding, we were in middle school having a sleepover.  It led to a
whole thing including my major in college, and the reason I'm here.
Takes me back.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.