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I won a Commodore 64 when I was in Cub Scouts. Complete with monitor (remember, you could hook those up to a TV), 5" external floppy drive, and cassette drive.

I played pac-man on it.

rednekkPH wrote:I won a Commodore 64 when I was in Cub Scouts. Complete with monitor (remember, you could hook those up to a TV), 5" external floppy drive, and cassette drive.

I played pac-man on it.

i bet 'lil frankie looked a real cutie in his cub scout uniform.

get kicked out 'cause ya got caught eating a brownie?

TI 99 4-A for me. Used it up till 1994. At one point, I scored literally a truckload of extra equipment. Disk drives that weighed 50 lbs. and were the size of a microwave oven.

Ah, the good old days...

buffettbride wrote:

rednekkPH wrote:I won a Commodore 64 when I was in Cub Scouts. Complete with monitor (remember, you could hook those up to a TV), 5" external floppy drive, and cassette drive.

I played pac-man on it.

i bet 'lil frankie looked a real cutie in his cub scout uniform.

get kicked out 'cause ya got caught eating a brownie?

That's beyong wrong. Good job. Please continue.


NOTM Dec 2005

RinglingRingling wrote:

land_shark3 wrote:

z-man wrote:and before the PCs; the tiny monochrome terminals to connect with the mainframe and submit batch jobs. Then going to the computer room the next morning to pick up the output.

Had that one with the 9600 baud modem to connect to BBS boards.

9600? try 300 baud... you can literally read the printout like a "hukktonfoniks" line.

300 baud acoustic couplers .... 8" floppy disks .... 80 column & 96 column punch cards .... computer memory measured in "K" instead of MB or GB ....

rsgeist wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote:

land_shark3 wrote:

z-man wrote:and before the PCs; the tiny monochrome terminals to connect with the mainframe and submit batch jobs. Then going to the computer room the next morning to pick up the output.

Had that one with the 9600 baud modem to connect to BBS boards.

9600? try 300 baud... you can literally read the printout like a "hukktonfoniks" line.

300 baud acoustic couplers .... 8" floppy disks .... 80 column & 96 column punch cards .... computer memory measured in "K" instead of MB or GB ....

did you just ask me out? I'm not that kind of Prawn.


NOTM Dec 2005