One question to identify which generation a computer geek is from.
JohnGay
Posts: 57
What does RPG stand for?
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Figured most people here would be familiar with the older definition.
RPG == Rocket Propelled Grenade.
Probably think Video games started with First-Person shooters. Don't know why there are 8-bit bytes. Normally jsut Script-Kiddies.
RPG == Role Playing Game
Remember when computers were only 8 bit. Know what it means to die of dysentary. Probably learned Basic as a first language.
RPG == Rapidly Produced Garbage or Report Program Generator
Knows how to program in collumns. Has wept over a dropped stack of cards. Probably even knows how to butterfly punched papertape.
(Answers will be posted later
Figured most people here would be familiar with the older definition.
RPG == Rocket Propelled Grenade.
Probably think Video games started with First-Person shooters. Don't know why there are 8-bit bytes. Normally jsut Script-Kiddies.
RPG == Role Playing Game
Remember when computers were only 8 bit. Know what it means to die of dysentary. Probably learned Basic as a first language.
RPG == Rapidly Produced Garbage or Report Program Generator
Knows how to program in collumns. Has wept over a dropped stack of cards. Probably even knows how to butterfly punched papertape.
Comments
-Phil
RPG Rocket-Propelled Grenade
RPG Rocket-Powered Grenade
RPG Rebounds Per Game (basketball statistic)
RPG Report Program Generator
RPG Report Generator
RPG Regional Planning Guidance
RPG Rassemblement du Peuple de Guin
I'm pretty sure that one of them is the one that Phil is talking about. And I started out with Fortran.
(Comes in handy when you need something picked up at Radio Shack.)
The Univac I was in the other side of this computer room.
He programmed on the first UNIVAC computer sold to a business at GE's Appliance Park here in Louisville in 1954. He had some great stories.
I was summer intern there in 1972 and learned COBOL on GE 400 computers and later on a Honeywell 6000.
No RPG programming for me, but I did learn Fortran (and to type) with punched cards. I was a kid between 7th and 8th grade at the time.
Each GE 400 computer had 12 tape drives. Data and programs were loaded onto tapes from punched cards and reports were printed off-line from output tapes.
Creating a program involved writing the program on coding forms.
Those were sent to Building 1 via interoffice mail.
Keypunchers punched out your source code deck.
Job control cards were added and the program was sent to the computer room to be compiled.
The program listing and source code deck were mailed back to you for changes and error correction.
If you dropped your card deck, you could have a big problem
You were lucky to get two compiles per day - unless you wanted to walk the cards down to Building1 yourself. I was in Building 4 (a fifteen minute walk).
Appliance Park was a 1,000-acre facility that employed over 20,000 people back then.
BTW, you would be amazed at the amount of programmers that have no idea why there are 8-bit bytes.
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