Kindle...are you up for one?

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• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,835
  30 August 2010     11:3867938
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  I remember playing Blitz on my son's Vic 20 with Queen belting out in the background.
  
  The family watching TV below always knew when certain tracks were on by my foot tapping,they called it banging , on the floor right above their heads.
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  I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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• Guest 703

  • Registered: 30 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 2,096
  30 August 2010     12:0667940
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  Showing my age here, I started on a teletype terminal with a card reader for memory.
  
  When I retired from university a couple of years ago I was running about 15 different computers in my lab, most with their own unique software running on every version of Windows from 3.1 to Vista (legacy machines, we couldn't update the hardware because the software wasn't compatible, or vice versa), Macs, Silicon Graphics and some Real Time Operating systems with Microware os9 on a VME bus (just putting this in for the geeks on here!).
  
  Some machines were dual screen, controls on the left, images on the right from the same PC, but the most complicated one had two screens running from two separate PCs, one with Windows 2000 ran a microscope, the other with XP Pro ran a camera, and they all had to talk to each other in the right order. It was great fun trying to explain to a foreign student with limited English, sometimes even harder explaining to an English student with limited intelligence, impossible with some of the professors. Did my head in eventually, there was little room left for many normal thought processes.
• Rick Jones

  • Location: Dover
  31 August 2010     12:5368109
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  I also still have a working C64 although thanks to emulators I don't need to get it out any more. You can download plenty of free C64 emulators (just Google them to find them) for Mac or PC (PC users - CCS64 or WinVice are both good) and you can download just about any game ever made for C64 at www.c64.com. I'm a closet C64 nut, even after all these years and in the age of the floating point processing, realtime particle physics scattering and dynamic environment mapping on PS3 game graphics, I STILL love playing really old games! You just cannot beat the purity of the fun of these old games.
  
  You can now buy a C64 emulator for the iPod / iPad / iPhone too but I don't think this is very good because of the tricky control methods.
  
  I also have a few fuzzy memories of Compunet, a very early precursor to the Internet. It was a C64 network which allowed you to sit your old dial phone onto an acoustic modem and let you download 8-bit artwork and game cheats. It took forever to download a mere 28k, but it was exciting and a very prescient view of the future.
  
  

  
• Bob Frost

  • Location: Deal
  31 August 2010     13:0768110
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  ALGOL. MU5 @ Manchester University early 70s. Punch cards and a tractor feed printout.
• Guest 651

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 5,673
  31 August 2010     13:5168119
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  Interesting stuff, plus I only just read an article on the BBC about people being taught on the BBC Micro !!
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10951040
  
  5 1/4" floppies ?
  Been nice knowing you :)

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