Comments on: My First Program, Age 7 http://joshhighland.com/blog/2008/08/04/my-first-program-age-7/ the living internet Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:07:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Evie http://joshhighland.com/blog/2008/08/04/my-first-program-age-7/comment-page-1/#comment-8461 Evie Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:55:23 +0000 http://joshhighland.com/blog/?p=344#comment-8461 Man! I miss my TI! I think my brother has it, still (we bought it together, with paper route money from a Boscov's for $100. . .and Dad bought us a regular TV for its monitor. . .SWEET!). I wish I knew where my LatinLand program was, though. I barely started the programming, but it was to be a Latin to English vocabulary quiz of sorts. I think I stopped after animating the opening sequence, heh. I gotta tell ya, it's mind-blowing to think that we were saving data on cassette tapes, which kids would think was poor fare for music today, let alone data storage. P.S. I would like to use your TI pic (with its monitor) on my blog's About page. If there is a reason you would not like me to do that, please contact me via the blog Web site listed above. Thank you! Man! I miss my TI! I think my brother has it, still (we bought it together, with paper route money from a Boscov’s for $100. . .and Dad bought us a regular TV for its monitor. . .SWEET!).

I wish I knew where my LatinLand program was, though. I barely started the programming, but it was to be a Latin to English vocabulary quiz of sorts. I think I stopped after animating the opening sequence, heh.

I gotta tell ya, it’s mind-blowing to think that we were saving data on cassette tapes, which kids would think was poor fare for music today, let alone data storage.

P.S. I would like to use your TI pic (with its monitor) on my blog’s About page. If there is a reason you would not like me to do that, please contact me via the blog Web site listed above. Thank you!

]]> By: Eamon Doran http://joshhighland.com/blog/2008/08/04/my-first-program-age-7/comment-page-1/#comment-2504 Eamon Doran Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:52:03 +0000 http://joshhighland.com/blog/?p=344#comment-2504 Having read your story brings back memories when I purchased a TI-99/4A. I bought it a year before TI pulled out of the market. I had no idea how a computer worked but the keyboard attracted me and also the shape of the console because it looked so sturdy. I still have it running today - expansion, disks, printer, tape recorder, and lots of cartridges. My son, like you took to it and started programming when he was about 10. I bought the extended basic cartridge and he started using sprites. I bought the mini-memory cartridge and we started learning assembly. At the age of 11 he found assembly easy and left me standing. Today he works as a games programmer all thanks to the TI. Having read your story brings back memories when I purchased a TI-99/4A. I bought it a year before TI pulled out of the market. I had no idea how a computer worked but the keyboard attracted me and also the shape of the console because it looked so sturdy. I still have it running today – expansion, disks, printer, tape recorder, and lots of cartridges. My son, like you took to it and started programming when he was about 10. I bought the extended basic cartridge and he started using sprites. I bought the mini-memory cartridge and we started learning assembly. At the age of 11 he found assembly easy and left me standing. Today he works as a games programmer all thanks to the TI.

]]> By: Rod McCormick http://joshhighland.com/blog/2008/08/04/my-first-program-age-7/comment-page-1/#comment-2500 Rod McCormick Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:08:08 +0000 http://joshhighland.com/blog/?p=344#comment-2500 Nice article. Other than mainframe computers, the TI was my first personal computer. I used it mostly to get my kids used to computers. Now my son is an electrical engineer putting computers in everything, and my daughter is off in Thailand writing home on her computer via the Internet. Great memories. Nice article. Other than mainframe computers, the TI was my first personal computer. I used it mostly to get my kids used to computers. Now my son is an electrical engineer putting computers in everything, and my daughter is off in Thailand writing home on her computer via the Internet. Great memories.

]]> By: Frank Pavich http://joshhighland.com/blog/2008/08/04/my-first-program-age-7/comment-page-1/#comment-1740 Frank Pavich Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:45:42 +0000 http://joshhighland.com/blog/?p=344#comment-1740 Holy shit Josh! The TI-99/4A was my first computer too! I never had the Commodore 64 like the other kids. :( Wow, I never thought that anyone else would know what the hell that was. Thanks for uploading those photos! Haha! Holy shit Josh! The TI-99/4A was my first computer too! I never had the Commodore 64 like the other kids. :( Wow, I never thought that anyone else would know what the hell that was. Thanks for uploading those photos! Haha!

]]> By: Luis Majano http://joshhighland.com/blog/2008/08/04/my-first-program-age-7/comment-page-1/#comment-1651 Luis Majano Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:44:30 +0000 http://joshhighland.com/blog/?p=344#comment-1651 Dude, that is really something!! I wish I had kept my very own programs too!! That is so great!! Dude, that is really something!! I wish I had kept my very own programs too!! That is so great!!

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