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3.0L · 04-13-2021, 12:21 PM

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I learned BASIC too.

Yes, BASIC was pretty cool. One of my programs was a crude flight simulator. I figured out how to view the BASIC code after the program loaded. From there, I was able to alter the code so the simulator airplane would go super sonic and also fly under ground, sort of like a submarine. Heh!

UncleWede · 04-13-2021, 12:33 PM

If you can BASIC, you can program anything. It's just a bit different words, but the logic process remains.

8080/8086 and jump tables, man . . .

TKDbilly · 04-13-2021, 03:54 PM

ding ding

Esteban · 04-13-2021, 03:57 PM

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ding ding

Haha, I like it!

Buug959 · 04-13-2021, 04:03 PM

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ding ding

We're going to have to get new signs put up beside the Disabled and Family parking spots at Walmart and the mall.

JJ 911SC · 04-13-2021, 04:41 PM

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My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair 1000. I bought at a drugstore in 1982. The BASIC programs were loaded from an audio cassette player. Average load times were about 6 minutes. I had a lot of fun with it, and I still have it.

Pretty well the same era as my first one... Commodore Vic 20. I also got a Sinclair Spectrum while docking in the UK.

unluky · 04-13-2021, 05:03 PM

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Pretty well the same era as my first one... Commodore Vic 20. I also got a Sinclair Spectrum while docking in the UK.

I had a cousin in on the ground floor of Commodore. I had no idea what it was when I was a kid. He'd bring in these "keyboards" with all the shit exposed and use tweezers pull the chips out and replace them and let us place like moon lander and shit. I was a dumbass little kid - I had no idea, I just thought he was cool.

We was worth a pretty penny for a while, but held it too long until it crashed. He was a true believer. Still did pretty well for himself, but could have cashed out during the peak.

TopJimmy · 04-13-2021, 08:01 PM

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Pretty well the same era as my first one... Commodore Vic 20. I also got a Sinclair Spectrum while docking in the UK.

+1 for the VIC-20. It was my first, and I got the cassette recorder too. After the Commodore my uncle bought me an Apple IIe with 80-column card, a Hayes 300baud modem card, and dot matrix printer. I hosted a crappy text based BBS.

Littlebear · 04-13-2021, 08:33 PM

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.... I hosted a crappy text based BBS.

You know your old when you remember "Duane's Garage" BMW forum.
Trouble is, I don't remember the name of the earlier BMW BBS that Duane's Garage spun off from.

Anyone? It had Jim Conforti, the UUC guys before they started & were just hiding purchases from their wives....

Esteban · 04-13-2021, 10:05 PM

"Hello!"

wdb · 04-14-2021, 08:04 PM

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While we are on a roll with first computers ... Colorado School of Mines had a special deal with IBM for the first issued IBM dual floppy in 1985. I hung onto this dinosaur adding in hard drives, modems, graphic card and eventually had to retire it to keep up with ever improving software.
Gotta love the zombie green characters ...

Best. Keyboard. Ever. Finally gave them up after I got tired of teammates on conf calls whinging about the clickity clack.

MKSixer · 04-14-2021, 08:23 PM

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You know your old when you remember "Duane's Garage" BMW forum.
Trouble is, I don't remember the name of the earlier BMW BBS that Duane's Garage spun off from.

Anyone? It had Jim Conforti, the UUC guys before they started & were just hiding purchases from their wives....

Remember Quantum Link or Q-Link?

You know what comes next. Get off my Lawn!!!!!

Esteban · 04-14-2021, 09:09 PM

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You know your old when you remember "Duane's Garage" BMW forum.
Trouble is, I don't remember the name of the earlier BMW BBS that Duane's Garage spun off from.

Anyone? It had Jim Conforti, the UUC guys before they started & were just hiding purchases from their wives....

Remember Quantum Link or Q-Link?

You know what comes next. Get off my Lawn!!!!!

How about Compuserve? That really takes me back. That was my first online service. After that it was AOL, I think.

MKSixer · 04-15-2021, 07:32 AM

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How about Compuserve? That really takes me back. That was my first online service. After that it was AOL, I think.

Yeah. Q-Link, if I remember correctly, was a predecessor of AOL. Started on the east coast and migrated outwards from there. I remember getting a $150 service charge for all of the minutes I used when I was 15 or 16. It wasn't a good conversation with the parental units.

Are these people still on my lawn?!?!!

UncleWede · 04-15-2021, 03:52 PM

Both bladder AND stream get smaller

Esteban · 04-15-2021, 03:58 PM

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Both bladder AND stream get smaller

Depends on what medication you're taking.

UncleWede · 04-15-2021, 04:07 PM

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Both bladder AND stream get smaller

Depends on what medication you're taking.

Neither insulin nor aspirin should do that

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Esteban · 04-15-2021, 04:26 PM

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Neither insulin nor aspirin should do that

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I'm taking Finasteride. Makes the Prostate smaller. Helps you piss. Has been working well for more than 15 years.

upstatedoc · 04-15-2021, 05:02 PM

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Both bladder AND stream get smaller

Tmi

3798j · 04-15-2021, 05:07 PM

You remember when he was known as "Little" Stevie Wonder.

3798j · 04-15-2021, 05:32 PM

You remember the new "personal" TI hand held calculator being advertised for $149.95...$982.00 in today's dollars.

JJ 911SC · 04-15-2021, 05:46 PM

When 75% of the stuff at Radio Shack were discrete components...

Last time I went into one in 2010 looking for a Resistor, the clerk point me to a 4' x 6' panel at the far corner

https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/i...#main_catalogs

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