You apparently didn't play Tunnels Of Doom...
Enough to make an 8 year old wait the 200 seconds it took to load from tape.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:30:16 -0600
From: Fmiser
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: for those who grew up in the 8-bit age
Messa
> Curt Raymond wrote:
> I just checked and I've got
> around 60 applications for the thing, games, office apps (not
> Y2K compliant) programming etc, even LOGO...
Heh.
Tombstone City is the only game I miss from those. But even
that I don't miss enough to setup an emulator to run it.
-- Phili
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Peter Frederick wrote:
> I paid a fortune for a Northgate keyboard back when they only made keyboards
> because it was as close to an
> IBM as I could afford (half the price) Still works great, or did until my
> ancient AT box croaked.
>
> I wish I could hook it
e got around 60 applications for the thing, games, office
apps (not Y2K compliant) programming etc, even LOGO...
-Curt
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:53:02 -0600
From: Donald Snook
To: "'Mercedes@okiebenz.com'"
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: for those who grew up in the 8-bit age
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Mountain Man wrote: "Our first family computer was a pcjr 20 years ago . . ."
When I was about 10 years old, my father bought me a Commodore Vic 20 for
Christmas. The computer actually had 4K of memory, but you could buy this
thing you inserted into the back of it which boosted it to 20K. Henc
;Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: for those who grew up in the 8-bit age
>
>Walt Zarnoch writes:
>
>> My all-time favorite keyboard is an old IBM click-key model, with the
>> individual switches per key. Saddly USB has eclipsed keyboard ports, and
>> usb-ps/2 adapters won't
Walt Zarnoch wrote:
Might be true, but my smartphone keyboard types better than a netbook. It's
all in the spacing, if you 2-thumb it you can get pretty good speed
reasonably easy, and surprisingly little discomfort.
I for one find the netbook keyboards in that awkward "too small to type
properl
There is a company-unicomp I think that still makes them. They have a
line called the "customizer" which feels and sounds like a ps/2 era
keyboard. They even make a USB version, but it's only available in a
black case with grey keys (and windows keys)
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Walt Zarnoch writes:
> My all-time favorite keyboard is an old IBM click-key model, with the
> individual switches per key. Saddly USB has eclipsed keyboard ports, and
> usb-ps/2 adapters won't work with it. It's the big old din connector, and
> uses a long dead protocol...
The IBM "Model M" des
Might be true, but my smartphone keyboard types better than a netbook. It's
all in the spacing, if you 2-thumb it you can get pretty good speed
reasonably easy, and surprisingly little discomfort.
I for one find the netbook keyboards in that awkward "too small to type
properly with 2 hands, but no
Yeah, as kids we always liked when the Moormans Feed guy came around.
He would always leave a handfull of chicklets boxes with mom for us.
Of course the boxes advertised Moormans That was before the
homebuilt 8 bit computer age.
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Our first family computer was a pcjr 20 years ago.
The sons all grew up typing papers on an old hp with touch screen -
not like touch screen today, but touch screen with a matrix of x,y
beams that intersect, I believe, and run all things by swapping 3.5"
floppy, unlike the 5" floppy in the epson qx
Watch "Mad Men" some time and wax poetically about all the "old" stuff on there.
Their set decorators are wizards.
Dan
--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Peter Frederick wrote:
> From: Peter Frederick
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: for those who grew up in the 8-bit age
>
Ah, I wrote my first code on a PC Jr... Logo. Tail up tail down. Good times.
-Rolf
On 02/16/2010 02:46 PM, Gary Hurst wrote:
wasn't that the first thing screamed about on teh pc junior?
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Alex Chamberlain
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ry 16, 2010 2:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: for those who grew up in the 8-bit age
We splurged on the PC Junior a year after it came out, and went into hock to
purchase a model with bells and whistles (such as A and B drives). It cost
about $1500 IIRC, which is equivale
Chicklet... As used in conjunction with "peanut" (as a stark contrast
to a model M...)
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Who else remember
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> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: for those who grew up in the 8-bit age
>
>
> i liked em all. i still even have a broken selectric 3 that i got for very
> cheap that i've been lugging around for 25 years
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Peter Frede
itch Haley
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i liked em all. i still even have a broken selectric 3 that i got for very
cheap that i've been lugging around for 25 years
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
> Bot
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
> Looks like I was wrong, chiclet was a reference to the keyswitch
> construction used, among other things, in the PCjr:
I'm pretty sure the term was in common usage (at least in the
magazines of the time that catered to the 8-bit home computer
everyone got that, i think. the rest is just nostalgic reminiscences.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Alex Chamberlain
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> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Peter Frederick
> wrote:
> > Bother that, I can remember when an IBM Selectric typewriter
> > was an object of admiration! The firs
st one, not the Selectric II.
>
> Peter
>
> -Original Message-
> >From: Alex Chamberlain
> >Sent: Feb 16, 2010 1:41 PM
> >To: Mercedes Discussion List
> >Subject: [MBZ] OT: for those who grew up in the 8-bit age
> >
> >http://promos.asus.com/U
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
> Bother that, I can remember when an IBM Selectric typewriter
> was an object of admiration! The first one, not the Selectric II.
Well, sure. They still are. That's why those in the know refer to
the apostrophe-next-to-the-semicolon org
Bother that, I can remember when an IBM Selectric typewriter was an object of
admiration! The first one, not the Selectric II.
Peter
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>From: Alex Chamberlain
>Sent: Feb 16, 2010 1:41 PM
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>Subject: [MBZ] OT: for those who grew
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
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Who else remembers when "chiclet" was a term of derision for certain
computer keyboards, rather than something a company would call
attention to in their advertising?
Looks like I was wrong, chiclet was a reference to
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
http://promos.asus.com/US/EeePC_Pinetrail/index.html
Who else remembers when "chiclet" was a term of derision for certain
computer keyboards, rather than something a company would call
attention to in their advertising?
but that one's only 92% chiclet.
Wasn't 'Chiclet'
wasn't that the first thing screamed about on teh pc junior?
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Alex Chamberlain
wrote:
> http://promos.asus.com/US/EeePC_Pinetrail/index.html
>
> Who else remembers when "chiclet" was a term of derision for certain
> computer keyboards, rather than something a compa
http://promos.asus.com/US/EeePC_Pinetrail/index.html
Who else remembers when "chiclet" was a term of derision for certain
computer keyboards, rather than something a company would call
attention to in their advertising?
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