The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 5:21 am
WoW [X(] what a deal
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RE: The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 5:22 am
Thats a Tandy deal [:D]
RE: The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 7:00 am
Oh yeah!!! $215!! Sell your grandmother because you need this!
RE: The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 7:45 am
Ah, memories [:'(]
I loved all the Commodore stuff, I had a C64, Amiga 500 and Amiga 3000. All of which pissed on early PC/MS-DOS/EArly Windoze machines until the mid-nineties.
There was something wonderful with the C64 (and the earlier PET, come to that) - you could just turn it on, straight into BASIC and actually PROGRAM the thing... I still miss that.
I digress.. that Tandy price was extortionate.. [:-]
I loved all the Commodore stuff, I had a C64, Amiga 500 and Amiga 3000. All of which pissed on early PC/MS-DOS/EArly Windoze machines until the mid-nineties.
There was something wonderful with the C64 (and the earlier PET, come to that) - you could just turn it on, straight into BASIC and actually PROGRAM the thing... I still miss that.
I digress.. that Tandy price was extortionate.. [:-]
RE: The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 8:19 am
"high resolution graphics" = 320 x 200. [:D]
Seriously though, I loved it. All my friends had one, and I had a C=128. And later an Amiga500.
Seriously though, I loved it. All my friends had one, and I had a C=128. And later an Amiga500.
RE: The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 9:50 am
I STILL have an Amiga 500 ... [8D]
RE: The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 10:27 am
ORIGINAL: Bladrian
I STILL have an Amiga 500 ... [8D]
Me too. [8D]
RE: The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 10:43 am
ORIGINAL: Belisarius
"high resolution graphics" = 320 x 200. [:D]
As I recall, at the time "high resolution" referred to the capability to address individual pixels. Before then, you could only use blocks (essentially character blocks) using the appropriate ASCI code.
RE: The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 11:06 am
The first computer game I played was Star Trek - for a PDP-11, and using ASCII graphics. [:D]
RE: The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 2:13 pm
I got my Spectrum, C-64 and Amiga 500 left....well my father refuses to sell them [:D]
RE: The good old days
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 3:30 pm
In 1977, I had a Commodore Pet, and I used to dream of having 64K of memory! It stored data on a Radio Shack tape reader. And I remember when I got an Osborne. Wow! Two floppy disks with 100K each! Earlier I was probably one of the first to have an Altair in 1974, the first "personal" computer with 1K of memory that I saw advertised in Byte magazine! (I still have it, since it is probably a museum piece, along with 8-inch floppies that I got for it later).
Later I paid $10,000 for a NEC with two 8-inch floppies and a resolution of 1000x1000 color pixels, much more than any other machine! Unfortunately it did not support any programs except its own, the only program that supported the resolution was a demo, so I used it for years as a Unix terminal in my lab. And I remember paying $5000 for 32K of memory for an old Alpha 16 Unix machine that I had to bootstrap with paper tape (no ROM).
Ah yes, the good old days...
Henri
Later I paid $10,000 for a NEC with two 8-inch floppies and a resolution of 1000x1000 color pixels, much more than any other machine! Unfortunately it did not support any programs except its own, the only program that supported the resolution was a demo, so I used it for years as a Unix terminal in my lab. And I remember paying $5000 for 32K of memory for an old Alpha 16 Unix machine that I had to bootstrap with paper tape (no ROM).
Ah yes, the good old days...
Henri