OpenEuphoria

RE: How big is Euphoria clan

• Posted by Alvin Koffman <alvin_ka9qlq at yahoo.com> Mar 21, 2001
• 464 views

Well (creek) I rmember having (cough) a TI-99/4A but couldn't afforde a 
disk drive because of (wheese) the need to buy that dang expantion box. 
Then I got a C-64 and thought I was in clover with 64k ram (half used by 
the os [humm sonds like todays pc's]) and a DOUBLE sided floppy disk 
that just pluged in. Then I got a 286-12mhz w/1 megv of ram and a i30 mb 
hd, WOW! Then I tryed to start it......... WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE TO 
INSTALL AN OS!!!!!!! Who's idea was this anyway?????? I got a computer 
with no brains because I didn't ASK for an os!!!!!!!! Good greaf.
Hay where'd I leave my geritol?
Alvin (35)

Andy Cranston wrote:
> At 05:58 AM 3/21/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >> Oh, for the good old days of the TRS-80, the Apple //c, and 6502 
> >> ASM.
> >>
> >Agreed!
> 
> Agreed a second time!!
> 
> I learnt Z80 machine code on a Sinclair ZX81 and 6502 machine code on a 
> BBC
> Model B.  BASIC on both.  Now who (probably just in the UK but you never
> know) remembers the Jupiter Ace?  It was an odd one at the time because
> instead of running a dialect of BASIC like most micro computers it's 
> native
> high level language was FORTH.  Now that takes me back ... to about 1982 
> or
> thereabouts :-]
> 
> Gamers preferred the Atari 400, Atari 800, Vic 20 (fore runner to the
> Commodore 64) and even the Dragon 32.  All in the days before hard disks 
> or
> even floppy drives were "affordable" items.  You "saved" your programs 
> onto
> audio tape using a standard tape recorder.  That was an art in itself!!!
> Getting the volume level and tone (bass/treble) just right was a never
> ending process of trail and error.
> 
> I don't know these ``kids'' just don't know there born what with all the
> RAM, disk drives, graphics modes, sound cards, internet etc.  :-]  (big
> smiles)
> 
> In my day you had to wait 5 minutes for BASIC to boot of the audio tape
> before you could write your first line of code!  Still it meant you 
> could
> have great "fun" hacking the tape to swap the BASIC commands "RUN" and
> "NEW" around (evil grin).
> 
> On a more serious note if anyone is wondering what to do with their old
> computer kit (and we are talking 15 to 20 years plus) then I'd recommend
> hanging on to it.  Mint condition kit will, I think, be worth a bit of 
> cash
> in the "soon to happen" computer antique marketplace.  Dont forget the
> software of the time that goes with it!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andy Cranston.
> 
> 
> 



400 mhz Celeron $100 
256 megs ram $200 
13 gigabyte hard drive $300
Geting the OS to work priceless