Old computers!

**timechange** · 04-10-2002, 10:57 PM

I love this site!!

jkeller will love it too

**jkeller** · 04-11-2002, 05:33 AM

Originally posted by timechange
jkeller will love it too

Oh, yeah! I've had that one in my link pile for a while.

Also:
Primeval C: two very early compilers
The PDP-11 Unix Preservation Society

Official Intellivision Classic Videogame Website

http://www.c64.com/
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum

The Little Green Desktop (Atari ST) (I'd also have put an Amiga link, but a lot of mine are dead)

http://www.classicgaming.com/

To add a bit of seasoning...

**DevNull** · 04-11-2002, 08:10 AM

*Rummages through a box on his basement*

Here they are! A few 8" floppies!

Anybody got something I can read these puppies with?

**jkeller** · 04-11-2002, 08:30 AM

Originally posted by DevNull
Here they are! A few 8" floppies!

Depends. Are they Apple ][ or Trash-80?

(j/k... I don't have either, but I remember using both in that format -- the former because it was a custom-built affair because the organization couldn't afford an Apple-branded 5 1/4" drive.)

**timechange** · 04-11-2002, 09:08 AM

I used 8" floppies at school ! The sysadmin had us all buy an 8" floppy each to back up our work at the lab. It was *gulp* 1986...

**jkeller** · 04-11-2002, 09:20 AM

Originally posted by timechange
The sysadmin had us all buy an 8" floppy each to back up our work at the lab.

Yeah. I remember being thankful when 5 1/4" floppies finally fell to "only" $1 apiece through the school and I could buy another couple.

Don't you guys wish we had an "old man's voice" font?

**Still Shady** · 04-11-2002, 11:27 AM

Pretty cool...

**dlhalberg** · 04-11-2002, 06:06 PM

using a hole puncher to create a notch in the 5 1/4" floppies so you could use both sides?

Dan

**timechange** · 04-11-2002, 06:11 PM

Originally posted by dlhalberg
using a hole puncher to create a notch in the 5 1/4" floppies so you could use both sides?

Dan

Sounds like you were a Commodore 'lamer'

j/k

**dlhalberg** · 04-11-2002, 06:53 PM

I was...<laugh>...but that's beside the point. I think the hole punch trick worked for Apples][ as well.

Dan

**jkeller** · 04-12-2002, 03:47 AM

Originally posted by dlhalberg
I was...<laugh>...but that's beside the point. I think the hole punch trick worked for Apples][ as well.

Yup. It's what I did with those floppies that "only" cost $1 that I was talking about earlier. And everyone was so freaked out about making the media turn against the grain of the fibers inside the sleeves. Ah, so insignificant compared to today's concerns about losing 100+ gigs if your hard drive has a head crash.

P.S. This is my 640th post. A number that should mean something to original PC users...

**jkeller** · 04-12-2002, 05:40 AM

Here's a great link: http://www.scenemusic.net/ It's music from demos, streamed (in mp3, of course). Now you can listen to all your favs from Amiga and Atari ST demos -- all day long!

**timechange** · 04-12-2002, 01:56 PM

Originally posted by jkeller
Here's a great link: http://www.scenemusic.net/ It's music from demos, streamed (in mp3, of course). Now you can listen to all your favs from Amiga and Atari ST demos -- all day long!

WOOHOO!!!
My all time favorite was the music from SANXION
I am just now listening to a fantastic remix of it.

THANKS JK!

**wwww** · 04-12-2002, 05:12 PM

The biggest fault of my life was to give my sexy Amiga 500+ with 1 meg of RAM away!!!

I want to play Lotus Challenge, Indiana Jones (the one who used up 12 disks), North and South and all those other cool pixeled games that used to tie me in front of my 14 inch screen for hours and hours and hours and...

Rest in peace you sexy thing! :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: