Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >On 17.12.2009 23:10, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: >>> On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote >>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: >> http://ww

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 17.12.2009 23:10, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > > On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: >> On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote >> >>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: > http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was act

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote > >> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: >>> Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml >>> There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. >> >> Fo

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Justin Mason
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 16:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote > >> Marc Perkel wrote: >>> http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml >>> There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. >>> >> >> For your amusement: >> >> I

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > No cpm here, but what was once os-9, now nitros-9 because we changed the cpu > to a hitachi 6309, cmos & smarter, then re-wrote os-9. Both levels. > No CP/M here either, but I have a working Flex 09 relic - MC6809 with parallel connected A

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Charles Gregory spake: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Those were the days. A few poke and peek commands, 15 minutes waiting for the cassette tape to load the pirated game... Biggest thrill for me was reverse-egineering the 'fast loader' code in one of the games so that I c

Re: [OT] Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Eray Aslan
[Replying randomly to one of the emails in the thread] On 17.12.2009 05:41, David B Funk wrote: > Hah, I've still got my SWTPC 6800 but it's been hopped up. It's > got the original M6800 plus a 6809 and a Z80. Havn't fired it up > in decades, so don't know if it'll still boot. ;() http://ars.user

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Dave Pooser wrote: >On 12/16/09 8:20 PM, "Gene Heskett" wrote: >> I agree Benny. To demo that, I have the old coco2 that acted like a >> $20,000 dollar Grass Valley Group E-Disk for the production video >> switchers in the 300 series they made about 20 years ago. Fo

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Dave Pooser
On 12/16/09 8:20 PM, "Gene Heskett" wrote: > I agree Benny. To demo that, I have the old coco2 that acted like a $20,000 > dollar Grass Valley Group E-Disk for the production video switchers in the > 300 series they made about 20 years ago. For $245 worth of stuff, its 4x > faster and 100x more

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Wolfe wrote: >On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: [...] >>>kids need to know how little is needed to do simple things, and when >>>thay have seen it, thay will code much better if thay ge

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: >>On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote >> >>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: > http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml >>>

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: >On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote > >> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: >>> Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml >>> >>> There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Those were the days. A few poke and peek commands, 15 minutes waiting for the cassette tape to load the pirated game... Biggest thrill for me was reverse-egineering the 'fast loader' code in one of the games so that I could create my own TSR that w

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:05:18 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Charles Gregory wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > >> Marc Perkel wrote: > >>> http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml > >> There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. > > > > For your amu

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. For your amusement: I still have my old Commodore 64 and 1541 drive sitting in the basement. One

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Benny Pedersen
On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. For your amusement: I still have my old Commodore 64 and 1541 dri