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To: MrsNose who wrote (5966)	11/25/2004 11:36:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

I used to program a Commodore 64 with surveying programs for a mine I worked at. We also used it for metal balance of the mill. I had races with guys using the TI-87 calculator in computing survey data. My program had jumps to different routines in menu, and Q and A syntax for entry with check and return. Beat the calc boys by miles. When the manager saw that he had me train all the injunirs on use of the program. Reports improved too as did accuracy and finding of gross errors. Commie Sixty-Four was seen often timing ski races as it would stand -20 degree F cold. My fave rave was the 64K CoCo. Wrote many a complex graphics program on that. They had a plotter that was endless length and 4 inches wide. A hoot. And Rakatu -- a mystery game that was heroin for people. People I knew that would not watch the late movie on principle would stay up all night playing this. I wrote a true epicycloid program on the CoCo in about 150 lines and it would make 4 million neat designs. A guy from IBM stole it from me and it turned up in Turtle Graphics on the IBM PC Jr. EC<:-}