So who's the new old guy?

[bert22306]

Hola. Soy de España, y nací en 1960. (hoy 62).
Mi primer contacto con la programación fue en la escuela de farmacia con Fortran y tarjetas perforadas. Luego aprendí a programar básico con el ZX Spectrum y un colega de la universidad me enseñó ensamble. De ahí pasé a GWBasic, luego a QuickBasic, y desde que descubrí Qb64 he adaptado todos mis programas a él, y estoy encantado.

Similar to my story. Looks like many "of a certain age" started out with Fortran, and then Basic replaced Fortran in our lives. We used Fortran in college, on an IBM 1130 small mainframe, with punch cards. A whopping 8K of "core" RAM as I recall. The nice thing with the 1130 was that we students could run it ourselves, without having to turn in the card deck and come back later, as on the IBM 360 and 370.

Then in grad school, we remoted into some Burroughs mainframe off campus, and it used Basic. That's why I had to learn at least the basics of Basic. Then in my first real job after school, we actually remoted into that same mainframe, and still used Basic. And then at that same job, but at a remote site, came that nifty little HP 9830a, with the not so nifty HP Basic. Weird Basic, where variable names consisted of one letter and one number. One nice thing, it could do matrix math natively. And it was more or less a desktop PC. Cassette deck to store programs.

Then came IBM PCs, with built-in Advanced Basic, and soon QBasic, when DOS 5.0 came out. Then after that, in the Windows era, no more built-in QBasic, I found a nice QuickBasic 7.1 at some German software site, so I could keep using Basic, when others had moved to Pascal and such. Then with 64-bit CPUs, stubbornly stuck with QuickBasic, but had to run that over DosBox (which was okay but took a performance hit). Look for a better way, use my trusty search engine, came across QB64. Yay! Almost all my programs ran straight out of the box. Only a couple had minor fixable glitches, where I was taking some liberties before that QB64 nixed.

So aside from the really old programs that I didn't use anymore, I didn't even need to "adaptado todos mis programas." Although I did improve text and graphics display, with wide screen and more pixels allowable with QB64.