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On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:57:58 -0600, Old Gringo38 wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:34:23 -0700, richard wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:37:41 -0600, Old Gringo38 wrote:
>>
>>> http://goo.gl/zLE4C
>>
>> Ahh yes, the good old days. I remember only too well of the need of
>> having to store programs on cassette tapes.
>>
>> I don't recall off hand who first offered a floppy, but my Atari 800
>> had one. 5.25" style.
>>
>> Did you know the floppy disk was invented well before the first "home"
>> computers?
>> In 1950 by a Japanese inventor.
>>
>> My first machine was an Atari 400 and it came installed with MS-DOS and
>> you had to buy "BASIC" seperately, as I recall.
>>
>> After I found the power and capabilities of the Amiga, I tried talking
>> my father into buying one. But no, he wouldn't bite. Instead, for a
>> birthday present, he shows up with a machine that has some new fangled
>> thing in it called windows 3.1.
>>
>> While he was satisfied with his Commodore 64.
>
> My first experience with a computer was Dos 6, and shortly there after
> came Win 95 I thought I was in heaven.

DR DOS 3 something here. IBM PDS database of sorts. Programmed in Basic.
On a 386 with Basic ROM.



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"Meat Plow" <> wrote in message news...
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:48:25 -0600, philo wrote:
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>> "Zu Arsschlaark!" <> wrote in message
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>>>>>> http://goo.gl/zLE4C
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>>>>>> 11/12/2010 11:37:00 AM CST
>>>>>> Just West Of Nowhere
>>>>>> Enjoy Life And Live It To Its Fullest Support Bacteria: It Is The
>>>>>> Only Culture Some People Have
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 8k mem, obsolete cpu, no input devices. will have to dig out an old
>>>>> crt tv.
>>>>> i remember tapes from having a spectrum. 'r:01 tape loading error'
>>>>> every other time. happy days!
>>>>> its the must have item of the decade!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I had a TI-99/4 that used a cassette tape to store programs... thought
>>>> it was pretty neat.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> it was neat, if a little slow.
>>>
>>>> I got rid of it an never owned a computer again untill 1999
>>>
>>> me too. now when i wanna play the old games i jus fire up an emulator.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The only game I play is the win3x version of Tetris
>>
>> works fine in Wine on my Linux machine
>
>
> I have a game like Asteroids. I think that's the old arcade game. It's a
> triangle on the screen that you move around and shoot boulders and try to
> avoid getting hit with the pieces. Works great in wine.
>
>
>
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look up MAME it emulates a lot of those old arcade games.

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:23:28 +0000, Zu Arsschlaark! wrote:

> "Meat Plow" <> wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:48:25 -0600, philo wrote:
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>>> "Zu Arsschlaark!" <> wrote in message
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>>>>>>> http://goo.gl/zLE4C
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> 11/12/2010 11:37:00 AM CST
>>>>>>> Just West Of Nowhere
>>>>>>> Enjoy Life And Live It To Its Fullest Support Bacteria: It Is The
>>>>>>> Only Culture Some People Have
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 8k mem, obsolete cpu, no input devices. will have to dig out an old
>>>>>> crt tv.
>>>>>> i remember tapes from having a spectrum. 'r:01 tape loading error'
>>>>>> every other time. happy days!
>>>>>> its the must have item of the decade!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I had a TI-99/4 that used a cassette tape to store programs...
>>>>> thought it was pretty neat.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> it was neat, if a little slow.
>>>>
>>>>> I got rid of it an never owned a computer again untill 1999
>>>>
>>>> me too. now when i wanna play the old games i jus fire up an
>>>> emulator.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The only game I play is the win3x version of Tetris
>>>
>>> works fine in Wine on my Linux machine
>>
>>
>> I have a game like Asteroids. I think that's the old arcade game. It's
>> a triangle on the screen that you move around and shoot boulders and
>> try to avoid getting hit with the pieces. Works great in wine.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Pretty Corpse
>
>
> look up MAME it emulates a lot of those old arcade games.

Yeh my 18 yr old kid has a lot of emulators on our storage server.

That kid had it made growing up. All the current gaming platforms
that technology could offer, Apple and PC computers networked. Wonder why
he turned out so lazy?



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