This blog post is going to be really short. After I’ve published my last post about IBM Personal Computer APL version 1.00 a friend of mine asked me for help with running APL in DOSBox. In general I try to avoid working with PC emulators and I really try to avoid working with DOSBox. Especially …
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Those were the days – part 5
In this post I am going to share my experience with IBM Personal C0mputer APL version 1.00. As with the previous posts from this blog post series I am not going into the details of the language itself, but rather share my first impressions from working with APL and try to extrapolate what might be …
Those were the days – part 4
In this post we will take a look at IBM Personal Computer COBOL version 1.00. It was released in March 1982 and was written by Microsoft. Unlike the previous languages from this blog post series, I knew nothing about COBOL until a month ago. I still don’t know much about it, but so far learning …
Those were the days – part 3
In today’s post we will take a look at IBM Personal Computer Fortran compiler version 1.00 released in January 1982. This post is part of a series in which I try to get experience of what it was like to program in the early 80s. As the last time, I am going to use my …
Those were the days – part 2
This is the second blog post in the series, and this time I am going to explore what was like to program for IBM Personal Computer Pascal 1.00 during the early 80s. Well, that was mouthful. From now on, I will refer it as IBM Pascal 1.00. According to its documentation it was released in …
Those were the days – part 1
I’ve been programming for quite some time, and over the years I’ve witnessed remarkable progress in development tools and ideas. The pace of change is amazing—it’s easy to forget how we worked just a few years ago, which made me wonder what it was like to use programming tools in the early 80s. In this …