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by SHWoff » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:42 pm
Originally posted by Chacal
I still remember the hum it made and the sound of the 300-bauds dot matrix.
Ahhh...yes. But everyone wanted to run them faster even though they couldn't keep up... buffer overflow? X/On X/Off? DTR-flow control (remember Okidata and the pin 11 flow control?)? If it wasn't for flow control, I probably wouldn't still be in communications today (I enjoyed doing things that others didn't understand - still do. Although, there are a lot of network guys out there these days that know a hell of a lot more than I do...).
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in the boat and drink beer all day...
by Chacal » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:50 pm
I tried every combination of those settings switches and never got a baud more than 300 
Then I bought a 1200-baud modem for my C64!!! Freeeedooooom!
Hardest part was coding an APL terminal in assembler for the C64...
Then I bought a 1200-baud modem for my C64!!! Freeeedooooom!
Hardest part was coding an APL terminal in assembler for the C64...
Chacal
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by cavalierlwt » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:21 am
Commodore 64 ruled!
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by PraiseA||ah » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:57 am
Geeks!
"I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass and I'm all out of bubblegum" - They Live
Clint Eastwood (Munny): Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
Jaimz Woolvett (The Schofield Kid): Yeah, well, I guess he had it comin'.
Clint Eastwood (Munny): We all got it comin', kid.
Clint Eastwood (Munny): Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
Jaimz Woolvett (The Schofield Kid): Yeah, well, I guess he had it comin'.
Clint Eastwood (Munny): We all got it comin', kid.
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by cavalierlwt » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:59 am
Yep. I have to confess, I was a closet geek. Played D&D, Watched 'Monty Python's The Holy Grail' a million times. But at school I put on a different face. My friends from earlier in life were all potheads, so tried to keep that image in HS. My secret identity. But the when school bell rang, I raced home, put on a pocket protector and serial killer glasses and became...SuperGeek!
Failing to plead
with a throat full of dust
Life falls asleep
in a fetal position.
with a throat full of dust
Life falls asleep
in a fetal position.
by Namloot » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:31 pm
Originally posted by TiNM@N
wonder what WW2 battle ship they stole that 'wheel' from?
Yeah, I was wondering that myself.
Fortan! Duh!
by ferret963 » Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:40 pm
I predict in the future we wont need any more kinesthetic ability to operate a computer. Gone will be the days of twitch hand eye coordination with just eye brain coordination
by King » Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:48 pm
looks like something out of the dark lord's death star
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by PudriK » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:13 pm
Who doesn't remember their first....
Kaypro XT, 8086 processor, 4.77 MHz with an 8 MHz turbo setting, two 5-1/2" drives. I forget how much RAM it had and DOS version. Everything got too coomplicated after that.
Kaypro XT, 8086 processor, 4.77 MHz with an 8 MHz turbo setting, two 5-1/2" drives. I forget how much RAM it had and DOS version. Everything got too coomplicated after that.
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by Al_Gore » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:47 pm
Originally posted by ferret963
I predict in the future we wont need any more kinesthetic ability to operate a computer. Gone will be the days of twitch hand eye coordination with just eye brain coordination
2nded
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