Oldies but Goodies (Score: 1) by dotdotdot@pipedot.org on 2014-05-06 15:02 (#1E5) TRS-80 Model III ... I picked up a ton of shareware games and other utilities at a local user group on 5.25" floppies. I probably still have them in a shoe box somewhere if my wife hasn't discovered them yet and thrown them out.Commodore 64 ... I discovered BASIC and color!Timex Sinclair 1000 ... Worst keyboard ever! I got the one with 2K of RAM and remember loading a flight simulator from audio tape. The refresh rate was about one frame per second.TRS-80 Model 4 ... More user groups, more games, more utilities.TRS-80 Model 100 ... Now this is the machine I wish I still had. I maxed out the RAM/ROM to 32K and got the 3.5" floppy drive. I also got a 300 baud modem and would read SarText as fast as the the text would download. Re: Oldies but Goodies (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-06 18:37 (#1E6) I can't resist the C64 myself, but took my first babysteps into the world of computing on a second generation PET, which was like the most amazing thing on earth back in the day. To this day, I'm nostalgic about it.There's a company that has built modern keyboards out of old C64 chassis. You get a USB connection and the works, but on a C64 keyboard. I'm strangely attracted to it.
Re: Oldies but Goodies (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-06 18:37 (#1E6) I can't resist the C64 myself, but took my first babysteps into the world of computing on a second generation PET, which was like the most amazing thing on earth back in the day. To this day, I'm nostalgic about it.There's a company that has built modern keyboards out of old C64 chassis. You get a USB connection and the works, but on a C64 keyboard. I'm strangely attracted to it.