I remember using BBS systems on my Apple //c. I had an external Hayes Turbo Modem connecting at 300 baud. I used to have to type in ATDT at the command line. Remember that?
I remember using BBS systems on my Apple //c. I had an external Hayes Turbo Modem connecting at 300 baud. I used to have to type in ATDT at the command line. Remember that?
Hell, I remember having a modem and not having any local BBS to connect to.
although the last years in NYC were pretty downhill..
but mom was a freelance photographer and we were living in a large studio loft around 20th street, wholesale district.. feels magical to think now that Keith Haring used to "graffiti" in my subway station almost every night (GODDAM WHY DIDNT MY MOM TAKE SOME OF HIS STUFF!!!!), we had Warhol and Basquiat over once or twice, models, eccentrics, poets, etc.. and I was a little 5-10 year old who was in the middle, not knowing the actual significance of any of it .. ah well..
and yeah.. Atari 5200 was my first computer
My mom actually won a "Pronto" computer from the bank one day.. huge thing.. was for banking via phone methinks.. hardly remember it. Does anyone else remember it?
My first computer was a C64 like most.. then I leapfrogged and got an Amiga 2000HD instead of being like everyone else and getting an Amiga 500. Hell, I didntr know what the difference was, except it was a 2000 and not a 500 Hell, it wasnt until AFTER that I found out it had a Hard Drive... I didnt even know what an HD was!!!
I then had MY first Mac, PowerPC 6100/60.. but now we're talkin' 90s, so.. time's up ;-)
Wasn't there also one set in Egypt? I remember lots of sand and typing turn west, etc.
Had 20 Apple IIe's at school.
Even made the first computerized presentation at the school... took hours to put together a very simple 3 minute piece. Keynote could do the same in about 10 minutes now.
Colour TV (one channel) in all its glory, cheap white Subaru sedans (only around 200% tax for 1300cc engines and less, instead of the usual 500%), and VCRs.
The first Macintosh.
The digital audio Compact Disc (¡el futuro es aqui!), the Laservision video-disc, and the unhappy Betamax but also the forgotten RCA SelectaVision video-disc and Philips/Thomson Video2000 VCR (2x4 hours reversible cassette!); the X-cars.
The coming ice age.
The A-Team.
Tchernobyl, making a killing selling geiger-counters.
Almost forgot: hyperinflation, the banks' shares fraud, the stock-exchange crash, the Lebanon war? and me thinking I was getting too old for this.
I was a senior in high school when the Challenger blew up. I had a Timex/Sinclair 2000 as well, and remember spending in all night punching in code from Antic, Byte & Compute! magazine on my friend's Atari 400 and later my TI99-4/A and my C64.
Remember the 5 pages of code that looked something like this?
10 for x = 1 to 1000
20 Poke x, data
30 next x
40 DATA 100, 139, 242, 32, 12, 82, 47
50 DATA 200, 199, 112, 37, 84, 71, 42
....
6580 DATA 72, 72, 153, 44, 99, 63, 22
Which basically was an ASM program POKEd into memory by the BASIC interpreter? Nothing like punching all this in, saving to tape, running the program and promptly crashing the Atari. Lather rinse & repeat about 20-30 times until all the mis-typed numbers were corrected and you got a kickin' el-cheapo Space Invaders clone program! Yay!
Comments
1 - Cable will be here in a couple of years. A/B channels.
2 - Paying $80.00 for a "Gold Membership" at a video rental store that was 30 minutes away.
3 - VCR with a "remote" that had a 15' cable connecting it to the VCR.
4 - Midnight movies (after sneaking out of the house)
5 - My Commadore 64 connected to the TV.
6 - Dumb terminals, green screens, only classroom in school that had AC.
Originally posted by His Dudeness
I remember using BBS systems on my Apple //c. I had an external Hayes Turbo Modem connecting at 300 baud. I used to have to type in ATDT at the command line. Remember that?
Hell, I remember having a modem and not having any local BBS to connect to.
Originally posted by midwinter
Hell, I remember having a modem and not having any local BBS to connect to.
....$300 phone bill circa 1984! Ouch!
god the 80s were freaking awesome..
although the last years in NYC were pretty downhill..
but mom was a freelance photographer and we were living in a large studio loft around 20th street, wholesale district.. feels magical to think now that Keith Haring used to "graffiti" in my subway station almost every night (GODDAM WHY DIDNT MY MOM TAKE SOME OF HIS STUFF!!!!), we had Warhol and Basquiat over once or twice, models, eccentrics, poets, etc.. and I was a little 5-10 year old who was in the middle, not knowing the actual significance of any of it .. ah well..
and yeah.. Atari 5200 was my first computer
My mom actually won a "Pronto" computer from the bank one day.. huge thing.. was for banking via phone methinks.. hardly remember it. Does anyone else remember it?
My first computer was a C64 like most.. then I leapfrogged and got an Amiga 2000HD instead of being like everyone else and getting an Amiga 500. Hell, I didntr know what the difference was, except it was a 2000 and not a 500
I then had MY first Mac, PowerPC 6100/60.. but now we're talkin' 90s, so.. time's up ;-)
Originally posted by CosmoNut
Apple IIc. Oregon Trail. 'Nuff said.
Holy crap!! I loved playing that game in school!!
Originally posted by ShawnJ
Cosmic Osmo.
Hypercard forever!
Originally posted by ShawnJ
Cosmic Osmo.
That was by Rand and Robyn Miller. Kind of a warmup to a slightly more successful project of theirs, "Myst".
Originally posted by trick fall
I remember playing some game on the school's Apple IIE. I think it was called Zork or something. It was all text based.
That game is kind of famous.
Originally posted by midwinter
That game is kind of famous.
>WEST
Lumber Yard
This is a huge room lined with metal shelves. There are exits to the east,northeast, and west.
There is a small cardboard box here.
Piled on one of the shelves is a supply of lumber.
>TAKE THE BOX AND THE LUMBER
small cardboard box: Taken.
supply of lumber: Your load is too heavy.
>INVENTORY
You are carrying:
a lamp (providing light)
a glass jar
The glass jar contains:
a quantity of pomegranate juice
a jeweled monkey wrench
a dart gun
a small cardboard box
You are in a maze of twisty turny passages, all different.
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And I remember watching Apollo 11's "giant leap" live, too.
Had 20 Apple IIe's at school.
Even made the first computerized presentation at the school... took hours to put together a very simple 3 minute piece. Keynote could do the same in about 10 minutes now.
Originally posted by Bergermeister
Wasn't there also one set in Egypt? I remember lots of sand and typing turn west, etc.
Scarab of Ra?
I found a version of it that still runs great in Classic.
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That game is kind of famous.
Funny I used to play it at lunch time to avoid getting into fights. Got into a lot of fights in grammar school.......
Originally posted by Mac_Doll
Holy crap!! I loved playing that game in school!!
Ruth has diptheria.
Your wagon has a broken wheel.
On of your oxen is sick.
At least you saved money on your wagon insurance by switching to Geico.
Colour TV (one channel) in all its glory, cheap white Subaru sedans (only around 200% tax for 1300cc engines and less, instead of the usual 500%), and VCRs.
The first Macintosh.
The digital audio Compact Disc (¡el futuro es aqui!), the Laservision video-disc, and the unhappy Betamax but also the forgotten RCA SelectaVision video-disc and Philips/Thomson Video2000 VCR (2x4 hours reversible cassette!); the X-cars.
The coming ice age.
The A-Team.
Tchernobyl, making a killing selling geiger-counters.
Almost forgot: hyperinflation, the banks' shares fraud, the stock-exchange crash, the Lebanon war? and me thinking I was getting too old for this.
Good times.
I was a senior in high school when the Challenger blew up. I had a Timex/Sinclair 2000 as well, and remember spending in all night punching in code from Antic, Byte & Compute! magazine on my friend's Atari 400 and later my TI99-4/A and my C64.
Remember the 5 pages of code that looked something like this?
10 for x = 1 to 1000
20 Poke x, data
30 next x
40 DATA 100, 139, 242, 32, 12, 82, 47
50 DATA 200, 199, 112, 37, 84, 71, 42
....
6580 DATA 72, 72, 153, 44, 99, 63, 22
Which basically was an ASM program POKEd into memory by the BASIC interpreter? Nothing like punching all this in, saving to tape, running the program and promptly crashing the Atari. Lather rinse & repeat about 20-30 times until all the mis-typed numbers were corrected and you got a kickin' el-cheapo Space Invaders clone program! Yay!