https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1661 ----------------------------------- Ozymandias Jones Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 12:21 PM A blast from the Past! ----------------------------------- I was sent this 1985 magazine ad by a friend a few days ago. I just love reading things like this from a few years ago, knowing what we do now. Damn, but doesn't he look young... :lol: ----------------------------------- Posy Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 12:21 PM ----------------------------------- Colloquial expression. And. Suppose he does. ----------------------------------- Tormie Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 12:52 PM ----------------------------------- :lol: :lol: :lol: !! (Tormie has two commodore 64 in the garage :thumb: ) Good 'ol days ... an 80186 :roll: ----------------------------------- JanReinar Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 02:52 PM ----------------------------------- I also had a commodore 64! :lol: ----------------------------------- Posy Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 02:52 PM ----------------------------------- Also? What happened to commodore 64? ----------------------------------- JanReinar Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 02:54 PM ----------------------------------- I gave it to a friend few years. She was making a expo about old computers! :lol: ----------------------------------- Visitor Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 04:12 PM ----------------------------------- The Commodre 64 had a 6502 processors right? I worked with programming Apple ][, mostly in Pascal and 6502 assembly language. I built trainer based on the 6800, but may favorite 8-bit processor for programming was the Z-80. Darn, after all this time I can still remember some of the numbers for the 8080/Z-80 machine code! How can I get it out of m head to make room for more useful information? ;-) Pangor ----------------------------------- Tormie Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 06:48 PM ----------------------------------- :) My first PC was a ZX-81 :lol: ! ----------------------------------- JanReinar Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 07:22 PM ----------------------------------- ZX-81! If I remember right I learn Lotus 123 in one of these machines! :mmmh: ----------------------------------- Posy Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 07:22 PM ----------------------------------- Try it. ----------------------------------- Tormie Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 07:31 PM ----------------------------------- Posy, are you better than a zx-81? ----------------------------------- Posy Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 07:31 PM ----------------------------------- Do you mind if I tell other people you say I am you better than a zx-81. ----------------------------------- Ozymandias Jones Thursday, 15 September 2005, 03:31 AM ----------------------------------- Ahh, the good old days... Had access to an Apple IIe for a while (dads business one he never used and the school's computer club) then I got me an Atari 800XL. I've never owned a computer I loved more than that one. Used to write my own text based quest/adventure games in BASIC. I spent hundreds of hours in front of the old 16 colour display instead of developing social skills with my friends :thumb: My sister had a VIC20 :lol: ----------------------------------- Visitor Thursday, 15 September 2005, 03:37 AM ----------------------------------- I agree, Posy is much better. ;-) ZX-81? I remember the Timex/Sinclair ZX-80. I assume the ZX-81 was a second model in the same product line? Pangor ----------------------------------- Posy Thursday, 15 September 2005, 03:37 AM ----------------------------------- I'm glad we agree. I am improving all the time. ----------------------------------- Visitor Thursday, 15 September 2005, 03:40 AM ----------------------------------- :thumb: Pangor ----------------------------------- Ozymandias Jones Friday, 16 September 2005, 12:36 AM ----------------------------------- I had a friend with a ZX81... The real tech-heads had TRS80's (the old Trash 80) :) All with Tape Drives... ohhhh, the speed! ----------------------------------- Visitor Friday, 16 September 2005, 08:30 AM ----------------------------------- 500 baud tape on the Model I Level II. Or 50K on a floppy. Memories of old Trissy. Pangor ----------------------------------- Tormie Saturday, 17 September 2005, 12:09 AM ----------------------------------- I never had enough money for a floppy drive , lol (or, better :crybaby: ) ----------------------------------- Visitor Saturday, 17 September 2005, 07:28 PM ----------------------------------- I had access to floppies in those days. For the TRS-80, besides my little box, I also had others to program at work as well as the Apple ][ they all had floppies. Since for the TRS-80, I often had to work from home I had to have floppies drives to transfer the data from work to home and back again. That was a lot of unpaid overtime! Pangor ----------------------------------- Posy Saturday, 17 September 2005, 07:28 PM ----------------------------------- Was it really? ----------------------------------- Posy Saturday, 17 September 2005, 07:37 PM ----------------------------------- "" was a lot of unpaid overtime? ----------------------------------- Visitor Saturday, 17 September 2005, 07:45 PM ----------------------------------- Yes, Posy, it was a case of you are contracted to work for X hours a week and that is all we will pay you. If you want to keep your job, besides your regular work, do this and this and this too. If you can't do it all here during your regular work hours, you had been finish everything somehow anyway. So, that is what I had to do. Pangor ----------------------------------- Posy Saturday, 17 September 2005, 07:45 PM ----------------------------------- OK, I will keep your job besides your regular work do this and this and this too. In any case, Doing it all here during your regular work hours you had been finish everything somehow is not among my strongest traits. ----------------------------------- Visitor Saturday, 17 September 2005, 10:52 PM ----------------------------------- :eh: :mmmh: Pangor ----------------------------------- Moonglow Sunday, 18 September 2005, 02:45 AM ----------------------------------- Sold my Model I years ago but still have my working Model III. Ah... the good old days. :thumb: ----------------------------------- Visitor Sunday, 18 September 2005, 09:57 AM ----------------------------------- At school and work, I used a number of micros, minis, and mainframes. At home, I stayed with the Model I Level 2, until I moved on the an IBM PC/XT clone. That machine code of the 8080/Z-80 is still stuck in my head! ARGGGH! ;-) Pangor