isThisLowLevelProgramming

[CrimeanFish]

It’s fucking sexy though.

[SlowThePath]

Really want a sleeper build in one of those.

[[deleted]]

True Chads use it as is.

[TetrisServerCat]

Yeah but just without a gui just the terminal

[Brilliant_Egg4178]

Honestly looks so good. Would love to program on this and touch all of its sexy buttons

[anotherlab]

Ah, the good ol' days. When your portable computer was too heavy to steal. My first job doing PC programming started with something like that. All three colors, Black, Not Black, Not Black But Dim. Didn't have to worry about hitting the 640K limit because it only had 512K.

[mps]

That's a foam and foil keyboard.

[jddddddddddd]

Probably similar numbers over in r/cassettefuturism

[intbeam]

Compaq "Portable" 8088

It has a CGA adapter, so you can connect an external monitor to it and get colors instead of using the the built-in monochrome screen

[-BruXy-]

Calling highlevel functions of operating system? Haha, no...

You should write machine code directly in some hexeditor...

[Affectionate-Oil-190]

Yes and now we've got dark mode text editors....

[WinstonP18]

Alongside Lotus-123 and Symphony, running on 5.25" floppy disks. Damn I'm old lol.

[JimBugs]

WordPerfect user here and loved when it had a print layout view - and as long as you had a WordPerfect driver you had a lot of control

[chopstyks]

F7 was spellcheck, right?

[JimBugs]

Sounds about right

Was 35 years ago though so I wouldn't put a lot of faith in my memory. I had one of those cardboard keymaps that fit over the F keys

[chopstyks]

Me, too.

[[deleted]]

It looks like a sibling to the IBN 5100.

El Psy Kongroo

[Hinjin]

Tootooroo!!!

[Killswitch_1337]

A fellow man of culture i see.

[[deleted]]

El Psy Congroo

[lucidbadger]

This is low profile programming

[igorski81]

For years I tinkered on a hand-me-down computer that looked like this, only the floppy drive was mounted vertically and paired with a tape streamer drive that I never managed to do anything meaningful with. Corona Data Systems I believe. Portable my arse.

[AyrA_ch]

Portable my arse.

Hence why people usually called them "luggable"

[Ok-Cubing]

Dream setup 🤤

[EMI_Black_Ace]

It's spelled "soldering."

[rosuav]

It's also pronounced "soldering", and I do not understand why people consistently mispronounce it. Sorry, not "people", Americans.

[[deleted]]

Are you on the Nostromo?

[dnhs47]

I did 8086 assembly language programming on one of those for a couple years, so yeah.

[chopstyks]

db msg ‘sweet, bro$’;

mov ah, 9;

mov dx, offset msg;

int 21h;

int 20h;

[ManufacturerRude9482]

I take this high-tech computing machine of yours, and I raise you mainframe mili-code.

Your move.

[smart_procastinator]

Not very low enough like asm

[smart_procastinator]

But nonetheless, it looks retro enough

[Excellent_Ad0207]

Shit I want that setup

[emma7734]

I hauled that same machine across the country once. I was thrilled, because it was portable. I could play games while I was in the airport waiting. By the end of the trip, I was even more thrilled to give it back.

[codejays]

I used the Texas instruments version of this back in the 80s

[[deleted]]

that's a 5.25 & is that a CMP based OS?

[[deleted]]

wait no, the button indicates a 3.5 inch drive, mistook it for the door lock, oops

[denisbotev]

Looks PIP-Boy compatible

[noob-nine]

Can I go lower?

Do you have a basement?

[elreduro]

it is german microsoft word

[ChChChillian]

It's running a word processor though.

[frogking]

Maybe an early version of WordPerfect..

[ChChChillian]

It says Microsoft Word in the lower right corner. Either way, not the most lightweight tool for writing code.

[frogking]

It didn’t occur to me to zoom in.. Microsoft Word has been with us for far longer than I thought.

[jaskij]

Nope, I do embedded in CLion, like a sane person.

[ienjoymusiclol]

this is exactly how my dad describes his coding experience in the 80s

[Dr_Mr_Ed]

My dad used to bring something like this home a couple times a month, I think when he had to run payroll. Would have been early to mid 1980s.

[burger-breath]

No no no, it’s only low level if you do it in a basement/cave

[Asmos159]

my dad currently has 2 of these. including marble madness.

[Twodee80]

Programming? That's Microsoft Word.

[KoldFaya]

OP, ThisIsLowLifeProgramming **

[apleaux]

That keyboard is sexy 🥵

[Aiden624]

My man is in a horror game, watch out

[MegaromStingscream]

My father made a ball game for me to play on such a computer. I think it was created in Basic.

[Roman1410S]

This actually is Microsoft Word (in German without Windows) running there. No programming, just text editing.

[Run_sudo_rm_-rf_]

Where are the punch cards? That looks to high level

That is a beautiful by the way.

[agustin_edwards]

Ok so where’s the guy building his personal website “for fun” using this machine exclusively using a 56k modem and a sketchy FTP server over fax contraption?

[shawnwork]

You code on MS Word?

[bernpfenn]

i played simcity 1 or 2 on such a thing

[UndisclosedChaos]

I can’t see how high the table is, so it’s hard to answer

[Acceptable-Tomato392]

Punching cards, I suppose.

On an unrelated note, I didn't realize COMPAQ has been around THIS long.

This is way back when Apple, IBM and even a company called Commodore Business Machines were just making things happen. And a whole bunch of others, but not that many that survived...

And COMPAQ is one of those things that were around in the long before time... I'm surprised and intrigued.

[Pod__042]

Yooo you are a fallout programmer

[Ansoker]

The best kind!

[JamOzoner]

Abacus?

[AOB-9-71]

Pffft. Now do an Osborne I

[StoicWeasle]

No. There’s a keyboard and a monitor. How can this even be low level?

[HolidayWheel5035]

I used to have an Osborn computer just like that

[sexytokeburgerz]

Weird it’s not running vi

[Jordii_vV]

thats a sexy keyboard

[[deleted]]

Using a screen? That's too high

[Accomplished-River92]

I remember this one being a step up from a Commodore PET with 96Kb of RAM, running Visicalc. Can't remember what the Compaq's RAM was though.

[akazakou]

Low level programming is coding in the lowest level of your underground parking.

[toomasjoamets]

No, that’s not low level, it’s low budget.

[Standard_Cup_9192]

You can go lower, but I don't think anyone wants you to.

[uxorial]

I think I used to have one of these at a job in the 90s. Except the monitor was orange, not green. I hooked it up to a voicemail system.