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-=> Augusto Baffa wrote to FidoNet.CLASSIC_COMPUTER <=-

 AB>   I'm an enthusiast of old computer replicas. Actually, I've already
 AB> assembled some kits like Altair(duino) 8800, PiDP-8 and PiDP-11. There
 AB> are very nice to study old languages like focal/cobol/fortran/basic and
 AB> assembly language as well.

 AB> Is there anyone into it?

It's truely amazing the popularity of vintage/retro-computers today.  There
are large groups that like to play with, or actaully do things with,
vintage computers.

The size of the C64 group is really amazing.  They are large enough that there
are people who are building hardware and software for the C64.

I recently played with S-BASIC for my Kaypro.  This is a compiled, structured
BASIC.  It's basically (ha!  BASIC-ly) Pascal using BASIC keywords.

I've also been playing with Turbo Pascal on the Kaypro as well as my old
MS-DOS machines.

I have bad memories of COBOL (I did that for a job for 6 years), so I'm not
going back there.  But I do want to play with FORTRAN again (second programming
language I ever learned).


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