• Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    So in the 90s I had different computer based classes in high school.

    There was a “computers” class, which is probably the closest to what you’re talking about, in which we mostly learned how to use Microsoft Works.

    I also was fortunate enough to have some programming classes. We started out with QBasic and then the more advanced level was visual basic.

    None of these discussed firmware. If it came up at all it was probably a casual side conversation because someone bricked something trying to update it.

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        1 year ago

        I did have a classmate try to replicate Simon in QBasic but he kept needing the input reversed.

        I told him the “feature not a bug” line and suggested he call it NOMIS

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          1 year ago

          Had to look that up - seen it before but never played. Sorry for the late reaction, lemmy.world had enough server problems that I didn’t see my notifications in > 2 weeks…

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            1 year ago

            No worries. Lemmy feels way more casual than Reddit anyway and I got notifications for months old comments there from time to time