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Have you seen the latest computer?
Topic Started: Apr 7 2011, 12:13 PM (250 Views)
kenny
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"The new Commodore 64 went on sale on the company's website for the first time Tuesday and sold out within about 24 hours, though Altman isn't saying just how many have been produced to date."

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Axtremus
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from the article
 
The new machines feature a dual-core Intel Atom 1.8GHz processor, a Nvidia Ion2 graphics chipset, and as much as 4GB of RAM and 1TB of memory. The units run on Ubuntu, an open-source operating system, but are also capable of running Microsoft's latest OS, Windows 7.
Upgrade from the Intel Atom (move to a dual-core or something) and it'll look like a respectable spec. :)

May be Steve Jobs will revive the Apple ][ shell with MacMini-class innards now?
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Wow, I never thought I'd say that retro wasn't cool. Fugly.

I never had exposure to those first computers. My first real experience to a PC was some kind of Apple machine in college in maybe 1985. Green screen, no graphics, command prompts.
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The atom is a dual core Ax.

I'd like to see a quad-core in there though... :)
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
"He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple

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Kincaid
Apr 7 2011, 12:46 PM
My first real experience to a PC was some kind of Apple machine in college in maybe 1985. Green screen, no graphics, command prompts.
That would be the Apple ][ I mentioned earlier.
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My first Apple love was the IIE - hours of LOGO playing were my first programming experience.
This was federally sponsored in the school of course, and did me no good.

My real learning came on my own, when I first started writing BasicA scripts, and Batch files in DOS. I wasn't yet a teen, and didn't know anyone else with a personal computer - it was so awesome. Everything was unchartered, and friends were amazed that I could type a single character command from the DOS prompt and play back sounds, or display images.
That was my old 80x88, and had a 25MB HDD ( a very expensive upgrade we got after awhile). When I was in high school and did my first computer repair, it was to put a 1200 Baud modem on board - and then the world really opened up.
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
"He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple

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KlavierBauer
Apr 7 2011, 12:55 PM
My real learning came on my own, when I first started writing BasicA scripts, ...
Ahh ... weren't those GOTO's wonderful!
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Ahh ... weren't those GOTO's wonderful!

:)
My childhood friend and neighbor, who has reconnected with me in the facebook age made a BasicA joke recently on facebook utilizing the infamous GOTO.
Cracked me up.
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
"He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple

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It's 99% American made -- everything except the motherboard is American made


I wonder if he did that percentage calculation using his new computer.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Mark
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I just made my old machine a bit better...

http://s10.zetaboards.com/The_New_Coffee_Room/single/?p=8767895&t=7332918
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Axtremus
Apr 7 2011, 01:08 PM
KlavierBauer
Apr 7 2011, 12:55 PM
My real learning came on my own, when I first started writing BasicA scripts, ...
Ahh ... weren't those GOTO's wonderful!
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Shortstop

I had the SX-64 - a C64 with a screen. It had some nice features.

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I had the TI 99 4A I believe. I do not feel one little bit nostalgic about it. Ugh.
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We had a TRS-80 clone. I think it's still at my parents house. It had Microsoft Basic, and I dabbled in 6809 assembler. Of course, I had a lot more acne back then, so I wasn't really missing out on anything.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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The 6809 was a Motorola microcomputer (I still have a couple of these chips in my garage). The TRS-80 had a Zilog Z-80 processor. Or, is that where the "clone" thing comes in?
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Apr 8 2011, 04:44 AM
The 6809 was a Motorola microcomputer (I still have a couple of these chips in my garage). The TRS-80 had a Zilog Z-80 processor. Or, is that where the "clone" thing comes in?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

6809E according to this. Maybe there were two versions?

Oops - I just checked the write-up. This isn't really a TRS-80. Obviously, their marketing people were very imaginitive.
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I think yours had the better chip.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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