Question for the forum

[SevenStar]

heh. I had an atari, a tandy 1000sx and a TIMEX sinclair. yes, you heard me, a TIMEX, as in the watch manufacturers. How many of you can say that? it had cassette tapes that were used to run programs.

[Shadow Dragon]

I remember loading Software via my Tape recorder.

Alwasy wanted the Commodore with the build in Tape-Deck.

It was noisy and took a loooong time, and sometimes we had to load the same Software multiple times due to loading errors.

BTW, I sometimes accidently overwrote programs with Music and vice versa.

Cheers.

P.S.: For the old-timers, I still got a few 8-inch Floppies at home.

[Rorny Gracie]

I heard that Tandy corporation changed their name to Compaq is this true?

[Asia]

The internet dates back to the old ARPANET system (around 1960).

Shadow Dragon,

Don't you mean DARPANET?


Never got to see the built in tape deck but used to use the external ones. "Darts" was in it more than anyother software, mainly becaues it WORKED most of the time.

I still got boxes of old computer junk.

Oh and for games AMIGA COMPUTER games RULED!!!!!!!!

[Shadow Dragon]

Asia.

ARPANET pre-dates DARPANET.

Basically the same thing though.

Cheers.

[scotty1]

Jesus, could you guys be any older?

"Yeah, baby way back than it was only the "DARK PLACE".

No porn, eh?

[dezhen2001]

cool thread guys

I remember getting a ZX Spectrum 128k +2A (Built in tape deck - yeeeeah baby ). I loved typing in all those games in Basic or Comal. Also u could start loading a game, have dinner and then come back and it would be done LOL

david

[Ford Prefect]

I used to like playing Oregon Train on the C64. My first computer I had at home was a 286/5MB HD/256K RAM. Yeah baby!

"Computers will never need more than 256K RAM." -Bill Gates in the 80's

[The Willow Sword]

The ADAM computer? woooo i had one,,,,,played spy hunter and Dragons lair on it ,,,took 45 minutes to load the gams and for them to start up,,,,,all on tape. hahahah what a sh!tty computer that was.

Oh and i had a C64 as well,,,played some cool games on that one ZORK 1 2 3 ,,,,some kung fu game and Sargon(chess)and my fav was TELENGARD(remember that one?)

then the atari 2600,,i had a sh!tload of games my favorite was spider fighter and YAR"S REVENGE. and Pong.



haha im not that olD god D@mnit!!!!

MRTWS

[Rorny Gracie]

Hey Ford,
That game by chance isnt Oregon Trail instead of Oregon Train huh?

[KC Elbows]

I had the Timex Sinclair 80. Tiny little McDonald's touch pads, no cooling system, came with a chess game on tape. Because the computer had no cooling system, the system always crashed about three seconds after the chess game was done loading.

I was good at speed chess.

Then an IBM, I don't even remember what model, but I'd play "Wizardry" on it, every time you encountered a monster, there was a graphic in the corner of the screen that represented that monster. All of those graphics looked like what a tuberculosis victim coughs up on a bad morning.

Amiga saved me. Speedball. It Came From The Desert. Flood.

Is anyone else's bursitis acting up?

[Kristoffer]

geeks

[Bolt]

HA !!! I *still* have my Timex Sinclair - with the 8k memory expansion ... AND a couple of program tapes --- AND an Amiga !! Gawd, I should clean up my place !!!
There in my back yard in the trunk of my Gremlin - which is next to the Pacer. Luck for me I also had all my old bell bottom jeans. I knew those would come back in style! ...now if I can just stretch them out a little .....

...but seriously, I began programming computers in 1978, so..... it was mainframes though - - was soooo cool when we got the first "PC" in the offices.
Anyone remember the first laptops? Actually they just called them "portables". Yup, the ole Compaq portable. The size of large processor now, weighed about 40 pounds. More like "luggable" - that's what we called 'em - but at least you *could* take it with you.

[Shadow Dragon]

Don't remember the Compaq.

First portable I knew was the Olivetti M21.

Cheers.