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Truth Forever (OP) User ID: 1897079 United States 04/02/2017 06:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'd give up my wifi and my smartphone in a second if I could get in a time machine and go back to those days. Quoting: Berf Snurple I remember the first time I saw " Paddle Ball ' at a department store I was amazed , the line was to long never got to play that day. But now I can play all I want too. Nahhh , never mind . Well maybe, LOL GOD IS REAL. FEEL THE FORCE OF GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF LOVE COMBINED WITH GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF HAPPINESS & PEACE COMBINED WITH LOVE & GOODNESS. FEEL GOD. |
Truth Forever (OP) User ID: 1897079 United States 04/02/2017 06:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I believe I still have my Windows 95 CD somewhere...My first 80x86 PC was a 486DX@80MHz with a 40MB HDD and 4 (or 8, I cannot recall) MB of RAM :P. Until then I had my old Amstrad 6128 since I was 7 years old. In the in-between time I wanted an Amiga 500 but it was too expensive for my father to buy me one. Anyway, I bought a new old stock Amiga 1200 although I don't have the space and time anymore to dig in deep into learning this machine :(. Maybe when I get very old, I'll find time to spend to my small collection of old computers (Amstrad 6128,Commodore 64,Amiga 1200) windows 95 STILL fully loaded on one of my old school towers i bought in '96 and in my "slim" (2-inch thick) "1993 Toshiba Laptop;" the Win95 cd rom is still around ....somewhere GOD IS REAL. FEEL THE FORCE OF GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF LOVE COMBINED WITH GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF HAPPINESS & PEACE COMBINED WITH LOVE & GOODNESS. FEEL GOD. |
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Truth Forever (OP) User ID: 1897079 United States 04/02/2017 06:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Me2. and late 70's and 80's and 90's, especially 90's and 00's, which i still have, at least 2 of those and i guess the rest is up to history to decide thanks GOD IS REAL. FEEL THE FORCE OF GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF LOVE COMBINED WITH GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF HAPPINESS & PEACE COMBINED WITH LOVE & GOODNESS. FEEL GOD. |
Truth Forever (OP) User ID: 1897079 United States 04/02/2017 06:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Back around 1982 I bought my son a Commodore 64 for Christmas when he was 12. I remember paying about $200 for it (which would be about $500 in today's money). Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70161829 Today he is a senior systems engineer for a very large multi-national company. For someone brought up in the 50's and 60's it has been really amazing watching the growth of computers over the years. My first exposure was to an IBM 360 in 1970, but just on the terminal side of it. To think that today, your cellphone has more computing power than Apollo 11 (which I watched on a 19" black and white TV). I still have this game in a storage locker in NJ. I see someone on e-Bay selling it for $1800.00. . . I emailed the inventor of that system a few times. He sent me two autographed pictures. One was printed from his own printer. I made him a custom wallpaper for his computer background. i have a "RALLY IV" which was one of the first cheap Japanese "knockoffs", i believe... our colecovision having bit the dust in the late 70's and was summarily dropped into the dustbin, unfortunately! GOD IS REAL. FEEL THE FORCE OF GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF LOVE COMBINED WITH GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF HAPPINESS & PEACE COMBINED WITH LOVE & GOODNESS. FEEL GOD. |
F-BVFA User ID: 74355905 France 04/02/2017 06:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What is the collectible market value of these old puters on fleabay or other such sites? Any idea? I came. I saw. I Concorde. For once you have tasted Concorde you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. "I would say today we can integrate all religions and races EXCEPT ISLAM." Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Y ew |
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everLearner User ID: 71889217 United States 04/02/2017 07:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anyone remember the Tandy 'color computer'? I loved that thing. I spent hours coding little games in Basic when I was twelve. Lots of fun back then. Then I discovered QBasic along with dial-up BBSes... Hog heaven with my Compaq sporting 4mb RAM and rocking Windows 3.1... It was at that point I wondered what amazing things could be done with 32mb RAM... A computer professional told me "son, that's crazy! If you had that much RAM, you could literally live inside the game!". Last Edited by everLearner on 04/02/2017 07:32 AM |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 74529991 Australia 04/02/2017 08:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I believe I still have my Windows 95 CD somewhere...My first 80x86 PC was a 486DX@80MHz with a 40MB HDD and 4 (or 8, I cannot recall) MB of RAM :P. Until then I had my old Amstrad 6128 since I was 7 years old. In the in-between time I wanted an Amiga 500 but it was too expensive for my father to buy me one. Anyway, I bought a new old stock Amiga 1200 although I don't have the space and time anymore to dig in deep into learning this machine :(. Maybe when I get very old, I'll find time to spend to my small collection of old computers (Amstrad 6128,Commodore 64,Amiga 1200) windows 95 STILL fully loaded on one of my old school towers i bought in '96 and in my "slim" (2-inch thick) "1993 Toshiba Laptop;" the Win95 cd rom is still around ....somewhere cd rom??...I've still got the eight 3.5inch floppies |
Agent MIB User ID: 74573382 Philippines 04/02/2017 08:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My first computer was a TRS-80 Z-80 CPU with 4K RAM, cassette tape recorder for loading/saving programs. Learned BASIC and ASM programming on it. Doubt many snowflakes could program without a compiler these days. I had to look up instruction OP codes, calculate addresses for JMP, CALLS, etc. Quoting: Agent MIB My best program was using the EXT I/O lines to control my dual deck cassette recorder. It even included a database of what songs where on which tape/side. A primitive media player by today's standard, but advanced for its day. The only issue was that tape tends to stretch after use so index marks would have to be updated. WOW! What were your thoughts during "Y2k" ? They say that programmers worked 24/7 and solved it in the nick of time. was that true? I think people made a bigger deal on Intel's Pentium FDIV flaw than Y2K. Even though in the actual real world, it would never have effected everyday users. Just the perception it could was enough for the consumner to demand replacements. Every Intel employee had to spend 4 hrs answering customer calls. It tanked INTC stock for few quarters until the P6 came out . Microsoft had already released patches for their OS'es, as as did other large software companies (IBM, Oracle, etc). It was the custom software in embedded controllers (PLC's) that had the higher risk of failure. I don't recall any significant issue that resulted from Y2K. I'd have to research for specific cases where and what it did impact. You are born with the truth, then taught a lie. |
Jai_Guru_Jesus_Om Breshears is Off: Ask Me Why User ID: 65955727 United States 04/02/2017 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Back around 1982 I bought my son a Commodore 64 for Christmas when he was 12. I remember paying about $200 for it (which would be about $500 in today's money). Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70161829 Today he is a senior systems engineer for a very large multi-national company. For someone brought up in the 50's and 60's it has been really amazing watching the growth of computers over the years. My first exposure was to an IBM 360 in 1970, but just on the terminal side of it. To think that today, your cellphone has more computing power than Apollo 11 (which I watched on a 19" black and white TV). I still have this game in a storage locker in NJ. I see someone on e-Bay selling it for $1800.00. . . I emailed the inventor of that system a few times. He sent me two autographed pictures. One was printed from his own printer. I made him a custom wallpaper for his computer background. i have a "RALLY IV" which was one of the first cheap Japanese "knockoffs", i believe... our colecovision having bit the dust in the late 70's and was summarily dropped into the dustbin, unfortunately! Colecovision didn't exist until 1982 or so. (B)ullshit™ always needs an amplified bullhorn demanding kneeling subservience - or else.- SyncAsFunk The light within me always draws me back to make the dark decision to leave the false counterfeit light. -New Heart |
Truth Forever (OP) User ID: 1897079 United States 04/02/2017 12:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What is the collectible market value of these old puters on fleabay or other such sites? Quoting: F-BVFA Any idea? It varies. depends who is on at any given moment looking for the item, so it's a crap-shoot. I've never sold any of my own but 10-15 yrs ago i bought a few plus a few parts online. look up your own particular piece you wish to part with and search online for a value, or on ebay itself for a value before you go losing $$ on the item by not presenting/selling it correctly, i.e. maximizing your exposure with it online, if you intend to sell it. That's my 2cents worth GOD IS REAL. FEEL THE FORCE OF GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF LOVE COMBINED WITH GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF HAPPINESS & PEACE COMBINED WITH LOVE & GOODNESS. FEEL GOD. |
Truth Forever (OP) User ID: 1897079 United States 04/02/2017 01:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: G3 I still have this game in a storage locker in NJ. I see someone on e-Bay selling it for $1800.00. . . I emailed the inventor of that system a few times. He sent me two autographed pictures. One was printed from his own printer. I made him a custom wallpaper for his computer background. i have a "RALLY IV" which was one of the first cheap Japanese "knockoffs", i believe... our colecovision having bit the dust in the late 70's and was summarily dropped into the dustbin, unfortunately! Colecovision didn't exist until 1982 or so. I misspoke. I meant to say Magnavox/Odyssey but instead reverted in thought to our Colecovision that my father had purchased when our Odyssey bit the dust. I miss my father dearly. He was a proud WWII Vet and he was always interested in the latest gadgets/electronic design. He subscribed to "Popular Science" since the late 1930's (as a teenager) right up on through the 2000's before he got Alzheimer's, unfortunately. I was his caregiver, for many years. We would spend many hours playing video games on both units, plus another "Pong" knockoff generic, Taiwanese vid game console we tried in between the Odyssey & Colecovision. I had much less interest in the units than my brother did. I was a bookworm! GOD IS REAL. FEEL THE FORCE OF GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF LOVE COMBINED WITH GOODNESS FEEL THE FORCE OF HAPPINESS & PEACE COMBINED WITH LOVE & GOODNESS. FEEL GOD. |
chrisvet User ID: 74297385 Canada 04/02/2017 01:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My first comp: Commadore Vic 20 3583 bytes free...... Learned BASIC and made a few shitty games I stored on my 'tape recorder' modem as a 13 year old. I aced all my comp classes in in highschool. Today, I'm a fucking retard on a comp lmao "Do the Shit out of what you Love" |
Jai_Guru_Jesus_Om Breshears is Off: Ask Me Why User ID: 65955727 United States 04/02/2017 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Skip 47413241 I emailed the inventor of that system a few times. He sent me two autographed pictures. One was printed from his own printer. I made him a custom wallpaper for his computer background. i have a "RALLY IV" which was one of the first cheap Japanese "knockoffs", i believe... our colecovision having bit the dust in the late 70's and was summarily dropped into the dustbin, unfortunately! Colecovision didn't exist until 1982 or so. I misspoke. I meant to say Magnavox/Odyssey but instead reverted in thought to our Colecovision that my father had purchased when our Odyssey bit the dust. I miss my father dearly. He was a proud WWII Vet and he was always interested in the latest gadgets/electronic design. He subscribed to "Popular Science" since the late 1930's (as a teenager) right up on through the 2000's before he got Alzheimer's, unfortunately. I was his caregiver, for many years. We would spend many hours playing video games on both units, plus another "Pong" knockoff generic, Taiwanese vid game console we tried in between the Odyssey & Colecovision. I had much less interest in the units than my brother did. I was a bookworm! Ah, gotcha. You must've had "Rocky" and the Super Controller then. What a contraption that was! (B)ullshit™ always needs an amplified bullhorn demanding kneeling subservience - or else.- SyncAsFunk The light within me always draws me back to make the dark decision to leave the false counterfeit light. -New Heart |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74109368 United Kingdom 04/02/2017 02:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Same here man! I went 2600 VCS Woody, Atari 600XL (16k - 16 whole kilobytes of RAM bitchez! - and I got a RAM expension pack up to a whopping 64K eventually!), Atari 130XE, Atari 520ST then the Commodore Amiga. The C64 was more successful I think in terms of sales for whatever reason, but the Atari 8-bit was technically superior. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74109368 United Kingdom 04/02/2017 02:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NOTHING beats loading your game tape in, then going out to play and after an hour excitedly running upstairs to play your favourite game...... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51315982 SYNTAX ERROR. REPEAT X 2 I was so excited when the Atari coin-op 'Gauntlet' finally got a release in the mid 80's - I loved that shitting thing in the arcade. At the time I'd got an Atari 600XL and tape deck. The cassette was like a 120 minute one or something - the spool of tape pretty much filled the whole window on the cassette. It took like 60 minutes + to load that shit in, and invariably it would carsh within a few seconds of completing the load! And on the rare occasion it did successfully load and you beat the 1st level, it needed to load the next levels of the cassette (WTF?!) and it never managed it. Happy Fucking Dayz! |
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Jai_Guru_Jesus_Om Breshears is Off: Ask Me Why User ID: 65955727 United States 04/02/2017 04:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Also had an Icepick which could rip a cartridge to disk. C64 arcade ports were always waaay closer to arcade than existing consoles at that time. (B)ullshit™ always needs an amplified bullhorn demanding kneeling subservience - or else.- SyncAsFunk The light within me always draws me back to make the dark decision to leave the false counterfeit light. -New Heart |
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The Comedian :D User ID: 74597741 United States 04/02/2017 04:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Y'all mufuggers are old as shit. I know, because I am too. Last Edited by The Comedian :D on 04/02/2017 04:14 PM Saint Comedian, Patron Saint of Bringing the Butthurt to Dipshits ‘There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.’ - General Mattis, USMC, Secretary of Defense [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] "Subterfuge and social pressure are the wheel and fire of the 21st century" - Some asshole Legal Disclaimer: All comments are intended as humor and/or fiction and not advice, and not to be confused with any event or person, living or dead. |
The Comedian :D User ID: 74597741 United States 04/02/2017 04:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Original Pirate here. I remember downloading "Heart of Africa" or "Out of Africa" and "Mail Order Monsters" off of a BBS. Quoting: Jai_Guru_Jesus_Om Also had an Icepick which could rip a cartridge to disk. C64 arcade ports were always waaay closer to arcade than existing consoles at that time. Saint Comedian, Patron Saint of Bringing the Butthurt to Dipshits ‘There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.’ - General Mattis, USMC, Secretary of Defense [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] "Subterfuge and social pressure are the wheel and fire of the 21st century" - Some asshole Legal Disclaimer: All comments are intended as humor and/or fiction and not advice, and not to be confused with any event or person, living or dead. |
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AkashicRecord® User ID: 71106445 United States 04/02/2017 06:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Commodore 64 days were GREAT days. Quoting: Jai_Guru_Jesus_Om One could take over the world with one of those things at that time. ...as long as the power supply held up, that is... Remember "Midis" ? (i think that is what they were called then) MIDI might not exactly be what you think. What can come out of the end of a MIDI chain of devices that still use 3.5" floppy disks is probably vastly different than what you would expect: [link to youtu.be] MIDI is a realtime over-the-wire protocol and a file format. Sorry, that message is no longer in the database. |