One noise I couldn't stand was the IBM electric typewriter it grated on me!.Quick! Someone shoot it to put it out of its misery!
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A blast from the past
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LOL. CRT Monitors. I thought "I had arrived" when I bought a 15" NEC. VGA though!
And then my first VESA video card that I purchased separately.
Holy cow! It could render 256 colors! Amazing.
At work I felt like royalty after getting a Sony 20" monitor. 800 x 600 resolution...no tiny fonts to squint at.
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You wanna talk about an "Ooh and Ahhh!" machine. Back in 1989(29 years ago.), I traded my old C64 for a Amiga. Talk about impressive, It could display 4096 colors on the screen and had the ability to do sampled stereo sound. And best of all, it cost less than half of what that IBM PC with the CGA graphics on it did. BTW: It also came with a 3.5 Floppy drive.
That's really hard to say considering that Moores law is starting to come to an end.
In Britain. Queer means to be weird/eccentric, Just like the call cigarettes "fags". Did you know that a long time ago, "gay" used to mean being happy here in the US.
queer also means feeling physically ill probably dizzy and nauseous
sometimes queer can also have A slightly sinister undertone for instance he or she is queer .
I guess what I'm saying is is that fag and queer are used as derogatory words against gay people here in the US only. Much like a white man calling a black man a nig**r. Or in our case, A neurotypical person calling an autistic person a retard.
no people did not here but just haven't done it for a few decades
I agree. we need to get back the original subject of the topic.
The TRS-80 was nicknamed the Trash 80 lol! Remember the same amount of money back then was a number of times more than it is now, so the cost was way higher than the average household could afford.
I started computers in 1979 when my Dad kept bringing home an entry level 8K Commodore Pet from work (in 1977 the first entry level model only had 4K), it had a built in black and white monitor (later models were green screen) and micro cassette deck for loading and saving programs (please see the advert and video below). I taught myself how to program at the age of just 10 by altering existing code, the first code I altered was on an invoice program. Before long I was writing games and I moved on to owning the 1K Sinclair ZX80 (later upgraded to 16K), the Sinclair ZX81, the TI-99/4A (I was going to get the 16K Sinclair Spectrum, but it was delayed), the Commodore 64, the Atari 520ST, the Commodore Amiga followed by numerous PCs. I sent my games off to software houses as a young child from the early 1980s, but always got told I was too young and unfortunately by the time I was 18 the industry was moving on to more complex games that needed a team of developers (I was naff at graphics design and music), although I did get a couple marketed, they were on less popular school machines so I didn't make a huge amount of money.
What really infuriated me is David and Richard Darling (brothers) who lived in the same city as me (Birmingham UK), they were a fair few years older than me and were also sending off very similar games like myself to software houses, but they reached 18 when I was still being rejected entirely because of being an unemployable child in the first half of the 1980s and because of their age they got employed by Mastertronic, a company that first produced budget games costing just £1.99. To cut a long story short they later left Mastertronic after making quite a bit of money and were then able to finance the founding of a company called Codemasters and yes it is the same Codemasters as today, by the late 1980s they were millionaires and I feel I missed out when the industry was young entirely because I was too young. I got rejection letters saying that they would have loved to employ me, but legally couldn't and to try again when I was 18 (which was too late as the industry was then saturated).
(An entry level 8K Commodore Pet is shown pictured in this advert from 1978)
(I thought I was a geek and imagine going out with a t-shirt like his, lol!)
Here is the 1982 game Alpiner which I used to love, it had both male and female voices and compared to other 1982 games on home machines at the time it was incredible:
Here is the another 1982 game I used to play with speech synthesis, a shoot 'em' up called Parsec:
(What a naff player, especially on his/her first go!)
I started computers in 1979 when my Dad kept bringing home an entry level 8K Commodore Pet from work (in 1977 the first entry level model only had 4K), it had a built in black and white monitor (later models were green screen) and micro cassette deck for loading and saving programs (please see the advert and video below). I taught myself how to program at the age of just 10 by altering existing code, the first code I altered was on an invoice program. Before long I was writing games and I moved on to owning the 1K Sinclair ZX80 (later upgraded to 16K), the Sinclair ZX81, the TI-99/4A (I was going to get the 16K Sinclair Spectrum, but it was delayed), the Commodore 64, the Atari 520ST, the Commodore Amiga followed by numerous PCs. I sent my games off to software houses as a young child from the early 1980s, but always got told I was too young and unfortunately by the time I was 18 the industry was moving on to more complex games that needed a team of developers (I was naff at graphics design and music), although I did get a couple marketed, they were on less popular school machines so I didn't make a huge amount of money.
What really infuriated me is David and Richard Darling (brothers) who lived in the same city as me (Birmingham UK), they were a fair few years older than me and were also sending off very similar games like myself to software houses, but they reached 18 when I was still being rejected entirely because of being an unemployable child in the first half of the 1980s and because of their age they got employed by Mastertronic, a company that first produced budget games costing just £1.99. To cut a long story short they later left Mastertronic after making quite a bit of money and were then able to finance the founding of a company called Codemasters and yes it is the same Codemasters as today, by the late 1980s they were millionaires and I feel I missed out when the industry was young entirely because I was too young. I got rejection letters saying that they would have loved to employ me, but legally couldn't and to try again when I was 18 (which was too late as the industry was then saturated).
(An entry level 8K Commodore Pet is shown pictured in this advert from 1978)
I had a TI-99/4A for a while along with an optional speech synthesizer, the whole machine was way ahead of it's time with the original TI-99/4 being released in 1979. In extended BASIC you could even split up the built in words into their component sounds to make up new words.My family's 1st computer, a TI-99/4A, when I was a kid. Look at those keyboard overlays!
Here is the 1982 game Alpiner which I used to love, it had both male and female voices and compared to other 1982 games on home machines at the time it was incredible:
Here is the another 1982 game I used to play with speech synthesis, a shoot 'em' up called Parsec:
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Kirsty
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Exactly. All these alerts are annoying me of people talking about stuff unrelated. I was just about to say something, but you bet me to it.
If anyone wants to relive real memories of the TRS-80 then there's emulators available, but please read the "Legal Implications" paragraph below first before downloading anything:
TRS-80 Emulators | Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site
(Not a direct download link and therefore 100% legit.)
In fact there's emulators available for most classic and vintage systems, just search Google.
Emulators will run actual software from the original machine via the emulator, usually on a PC.
Legal Implications of Emulation:
Regarding obtaining any original software to run on emulators, well even though you might be-able to find it online, it's a legal grey area. If the software is very old on an obsolete system, many people will call it abandonware which in summary means the software companies no longer have any interest in it's copyright, but on the other side of the argument it is still copying and therefore pirating copyrighted software. Emulators also usually have to use the original ROM of the operating system from the machine it's emulating and this is also a legal grey area, even though I've never heard of any law suits regarding any very old emulators, a few newer system emulators don't come bundled with the required operating system ROM (sometimes called BIOS) in order to be certain that there won't be any legal issues and even though you can find them to download elsewhere it's still effectively piracy, especially if you don't actually own the original physical system.
TRS-80 Emulators | Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site
(Not a direct download link and therefore 100% legit.)
In fact there's emulators available for most classic and vintage systems, just search Google.
Emulators will run actual software from the original machine via the emulator, usually on a PC.
Legal Implications of Emulation:
Regarding obtaining any original software to run on emulators, well even though you might be-able to find it online, it's a legal grey area. If the software is very old on an obsolete system, many people will call it abandonware which in summary means the software companies no longer have any interest in it's copyright, but on the other side of the argument it is still copying and therefore pirating copyrighted software. Emulators also usually have to use the original ROM of the operating system from the machine it's emulating and this is also a legal grey area, even though I've never heard of any law suits regarding any very old emulators, a few newer system emulators don't come bundled with the required operating system ROM (sometimes called BIOS) in order to be certain that there won't be any legal issues and even though you can find them to download elsewhere it's still effectively piracy, especially if you don't actually own the original physical system.
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