Movie Junkie Posted January 24, 2006 Posted January 24, 2006 11. It has blinking lights on it (that's actual lights, not LEDs). 10. The default spell check dictionary is Olde English. 9. The noise insulation is asbestos. 8. It's too slow for the latest version of Nethack. 7. The memory is hand soldered onto the motherboard. 6. Eighty-column lines of text wrap to three lines. 5. Not even your parents want it. 4. The Smithsonian keeps calling to see if you'll donate it. 3. Green or amber are your only choices in monitors. 2. The CPU speed is measured in fractions of MHz. 1. It's made by Commodore Business Machines.
Grain Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 I still don't miss typing in code for 8 hours creating a game that sucked ass, then saving it onto a cassette! which took 8 minutes to save and or load, then when you go back the next day to try the game once more thinking it can't be all that bad after that much time put into it, only to find it harsed up and didn't save. Fuck that.
lfcrule1972 Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Nice I avoided computers like that for years !!
dbminter Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Having worked with an older set up at my last job, what I really hated was formatting code in specific columns. If you didn't place the $ in the right column, etc. ERROR!
blutach Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 (edited) I used to love my C64. Still got it somewhere. Regards Edited January 25, 2006 by blutach
dbminter Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 I had my Commodore 64 up until about 1991. I managed to sell it for about half of its 1987 or so price, even then!
volvofl10 Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 this is a wind up isnt it ??? i could tell as soon as i read computers have LED's instead of lights
dbminter Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 I remember others here talking about their ancient systems. One that ran on wombat power: a wombat running in a hamster wheel. It was also the first water cooled system. Then there was the amazing one that ran on ethanol and various other corned based fuels.
polopony Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 in 71 I was working on computers that used punch cards ,man what a nightmare ,probably why I didn't use one again for about 25 years
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