For the programmers here...

What do you expect it's Hollywood! You youngstrs may not think it's 0's and 1's, but to us old farts thats exactly what it was. Before compilers there were assemblers and before assemblers there was machine coded hex format. I started in the business and the only media was cards and tape. But then before I retired my staff use to call me father time and say I was as old as dirt.
 
I started at the very end of punch cards and remember well using cassette tape for loading old Tandy's and the like.
 
...yeah, the end of "Independence Day" was a little hard to deal with. Of course, the other one that cracks me up is "Swordfish" and the 3D geometric worm....Halle Berry made up for it, though.... :laugh:

Cheers - B.B.S.
 
My first Language was Fortran IV God I frigging hated punchcards.

I don't program anymore, even trying to think in code gives me a headache.
 
I love the part in Hackers where they're all looking at the computer screen at some ridiculous picture and were all amazed by it. Wow, look at that thing!

Then in the original Mission Impossible, they were sitting around talking about some new computer and the guy goes "is that gonna have that new P6 artificial intelligence chip?" or something stupid like that. Always good for a laugh. :D
 
There was some movie with "Andy Dufrain" in it. He was looking over some guys shoulder and said, "Yeah, that's some good code" and they showed a glimpse of the screen. He had assigned a few variables and had a short while loop.

Yeah, that's some good code.

When I started college in '96 they had just switched to teaching C instead of Fortran.

Nowadays I only write code in VB.
 
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