Reminiscing about technology of old

[medhead]

Eudora was pretty good and all. Much more modern than the vax email

 

[JohnM]

Eudora was pretty good and all. Much more modern than the vax email

One of the many good packages that were killed by the Microsoft onslaught after they finally got Windows working .

 

[JessicaTam]

One of the many good packages that were killed by the Microsoft onslaught after they finally got Windows working .

Can you please elaborate on when they expect to get Windows working?

 

[TheRealTMA]

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I never did much like crystallography... - and now I know why :mrgreen:.

Good way to get 500 papers in your name though!

 

[JohnM]

Can you please elaborate on when they expect to get Windows working?

I was meaning only by Microsoft's standards of what works....

 

[JohnM]

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Good way to get 500 papers in your name though!

Enough for a self-citation classic, then :mrgreen:.

 

[Cossie]

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My neighbour still uses his old Tandy computer, I think it's a TRS 80. It has a plotter attached.
As for early email systems, I used DW370 on a CICS system at work, at home I used Eudora, iirrc.

 

[RooFlyer]

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ymstbicnpc.

Huh?
.......

Francis Urquhart.

 

[OzEire]

Theres an urban myth that kids found one of these in the study at home, one says to the other "Look, dad used a 3D printer to make the 'Save As' icon"

 

[medhead]

I had two jam tins and a length of string

As did we. But we couldn't figure out how to string them across the road to our friends plac

 

[snabbu]

I miss my Vic-20.

 

[Cossie]

I miss my Vic-20.

Had one of those as well, bought it second hand from the classified section of the paper (old technology?) the day they were doing an upgrade at work, from memory one of the boxes was being upgraded to a 3084Q.

 

[JessicaTam]

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Francis Urquhart.

Still lost. Although I take it that it is probably a reference to the original House of Cards.

 

[RooFlyer]

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Still lost. Although I take it that it is probably a reference to the original House of Cards.

You might say that JT, but I could not possibly comment.

 

[SFSC]

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I still have a "VIC 20 Programmers's Reference Guide" First Edition Second Printing 1982 (288 pages). I bought it because of the section on machine language - I think I may have had plans to use it with my ham radio hobby but became sidetracked.

 

[robd]

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This was on my FB News Feed today -

You'll Enjoy This Picture Of An IBM Hard Drive In 1956 | Business Insider

 

[TheRealTMA]

3.5". New fangled gadgets!

This cost $1400 in 1982.



"The Commodore 4040 is a dual-drive 5¼" floppy disk subsystem for Commodore International computers. It uses a wide-case form, and uses the parallel version of the IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBMcomputers.

These drive models use a single-density, single-side floppy data storage format similar to that used by the Commodore 1541 drive, but with a slightly different data marker indicating which model originally formatted the disk. The low-level disk format is similar enough to allow reading between models, but different enough that one series of drive models cannot reliably write to disks formatted with one of the other model series."

 

[TheRealTMA]

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You might say that JT, but I could not possibly comment.

Do you want eggs with that?

 

[JessicaTam]

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You might say that JT, but I could not possibly comment.

Thank you for the clarification.

 

[clazman]

My Commodore 64 still works with the 1541 drive.

Load "*",8,1

Still have space invaders cartridge and 16k memory expansion cartridge for my vic 20

Remember accessing multi-line bulletin board in about 1985 with my 1200 board modem