It sure is interesting to read some of these old war (or is that whore) stories. I didn't get "into" computers until about '91. the best i can claim is writing DOS batch files to give a color menu display (rather than just c:>), and automating common tasks.
I DO remember back to the mid-70's when my mom worked in the payroll dept. of a medium-sized company, they had a CYCLE 4 mini-comp. About the size of a large refrigerator, with two terminals hung off it. Used to play a game called star-trek; with an "E" for the Enterprise, a "K" for the Klingons, an "*" for photon torpedoes, etc etc. Ken On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 11:27, dh wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 07:24 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > Alastair > > > > My GOD! where do I find one of these marvelous machines? I WANT ONE!! > > they sound perfectly awesome. I can't help but wonder why in the > > world they're not still produced. What caused their downfall? > > See my other post as well - it has more good points. The biggest > drawback is limited screenmodes (by todays standards) w/out extremely > overpriced video cards. There are numerous modes but you need a monitor > that syscs down to 30khz to use alot of theme and 15khz (read you can > plug it into your tv) for many others. > I had mine plugged into an old sony trinitron multisync and was able to > run 800x600x64 colors reasonably well at 31.5khz but it took some > monkeying to do. > Historic note - I think I paid around 800$ for my original 14" > multisync (15khz to around 75khz i believe) monitor in 1992. > check out > http://www.amiga.com What they are up to now. > http://www.softhut.com/ Amiga computers for sale > http://www.amithlon.net/amithlon.shtml A great x86 emulation > http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/ emulator > http://cloanto.com/amiga/forever/ commercial uae package > > Ok, I'll stop, Back to your regularly scheduled Mandrake related list > -- > dh > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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