Author: Dave Kuntzsch
Date: 11:40:59 06/28/03
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I took Fortran in college for which I was graded poorly. It seems my logic did not solve problems the way the instructor thought it should be done. Then in a career with IBM, I picked up 360/370 assembler (including "zaps" in machine language), Cobol, PL1 and PLS (a combination of inline assembler and high level compiler language.) In my spare time, I built a Z80 computer from a kit that interfaced with a re-PROMed IBM 3270 keyboard that converted EBCIDIC to ASCII, and a Hitachi TV modified so that I could feed the computer's video output directly into the TV's video stages. Bulk input was through an audio tape on an ordinary cassette recorder. The whole thing is still in the basement. After fooling around with Z80 machine language typing programs directly into memory, I acquired an assembler and over the next five or six years, wrote a chess program that had much of the function found in today's programs. Alas, the 4Mz, 8 bit processor did not allow going much further than 4 plies deep, although it had the capability to do so if I wanted to wait long enough. Then the IBM PC came along, chess programming ended, and I learned Basic and Pascal writing various stuff, some of which ended up on the old bulletin boards. After leaving IBM, a consulting career led to adding REXX. Now after returning to work after a two year semi-retirement, I'm writing PERL scripts to monitor a unique hardware/software communications environment. Maybe some day, I'll return to the chess stuff again. Who knows what language it will be in. Dave Dave
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