Posted on 12/20/2004 8:22:38 AM PST by holymoly
Because Bill Gates didn't write it. My Commodore Amiga had the entire GIU operating system on 1 3 1/2" floppy, 1.44 Mb worth of storage. Today's Bloatware Win XP is several Gb!
Risk on the Commodore was cool. also I recall a star trek game called "voyage to dakiak" or something.
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There was one for the Commodore too.
Ping
Trust me in 1983 there was no IDE.... I had a 3 CPU system in 1984, and I used all of em... long before clustering was a fad.
2 1541's and the C64. Would have the drives run programs and write their results to the disk when done, and use the CPU to do other things while that was going on.
The one and only time I was a member of AOL, their client app was based on GeoWorks. They didn't come out with a Windows version until later.
I'm sure there are many annoying things about AOL now, but back then what killed me was the fact that every time I dialed in (at 2400 baud, the highest connect speed in my town at the time), I had to wait 5+ minutes while the AOL client downloaded new graphics for their GUI.
Our first computer was a twin floppy drive, back around '1988. The salesman said it'll hold all the memory you'll need in a lifetime, LOL.
Then I sprung 2 grand for a color compaqq notebook in 1995ish. With a 40meg hard drive it become obsolete in less than 2 years.
I understand that in 1983 there were no IDE drives.
Myself, as a project I built a serial/parallel converter for the C64 to drive a standard Centronics printer.
It's a little fuzzy in my memory now, but there was the cartridge slot, the joystick port, the daisy chain port, and an additional card edge connector in the back. The card edge connector was for the casette drive. I also added an RCA jack for a standard monitor, instead of the output to the TV.
The joystick port worked great as an A/D input (which is what it really was).
I worked that all into a career doing hardware/firmware development for medical device manufacturers. I have pretty much left my assembly days behind now (Fortran and PLM are long gone) and do almost everything in C.
But the 6510 is still remebered warmly.
GEOS by Berkeley Softworks, I believe.
At the time, I was starting to write a lot of reports in college and along with my star dot matrix printer, it came in handy.
I wrote all my law school outlines and papers on a Commodore 64 and a daisy wheel printer. I remember long nights waiting hours for a 15 page paper to print. I even got a modem.... 300 baud, no graphics, and you could see each character as it appeared on screen....
Boy did it seem fast......
Good times.....sort of.
"Awesome It's got Jumpman! Definately one of the best home computer games EVER!"
That game, along with Karateka and The Seven Cities of Gold, blew my impressionable young mind.
I had a 128. bought one disk drive and got a second from a friend who had just graduated to an Apple IIe. Good Times
I had a 2800k modem. man where those fast! Some good flight sims. The best was Apollo 18.
recently found a mac emulator and tried to play it again. I got as far as the opening screen. Dying laughing the whole time.
I remember thinking how much better the graphics where than the old Timex/Sinclair I first bought!
One of the first programs I wrote was to "read" the lines back to me with the voice synth so I could follow along in the magazine to see where I'd messed-up. Came in real handy when I typed in the wordprocessing program - I think it was called SuperScript.
And the first time I played Elite, I played for 26 hours non-stop.
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