On December 15, 2010 11:49:03 pm gene heskett wrote: > On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:44:41 pm Ralf Mardorf did opine: > > On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 17:42 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > history being written by the winners, so the whole thing may have > > > been white washed to a high polish by now. > > > > People who put their telephone handset into a thingy to be able to do > > data telecommunication, before there was the Internet for public, tend > > to be more sceptic/paranoid than youngsters ;). > > Never did that. My first modem was a 120 baud device, but it was wired. > Hooked up to the precursor to the coco3 I'm running right now, in the > basement, logged into it over a serial port using minicom on this linux > box. > > > The reason for this is, > > that at that time, we might be hackers our self. I guess we can't > > compare the easy hacking that was possible at C64 times (or Amiga ;), > > with today data protection :D. > > The amiga is actually fairly late model here folks, I started with a quest > super elf I built from a kit. Circa '77.
1802 CPU fan here too. Mine was RCA COSMAC VIP 1802. Added 3 channel sound (Famous G.I. AY3- chip) and colour graphics with T.I. 9918 chip, after read Circuit Cellar article on it. Oh what fun... Tim. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev