Vintage
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My parents got rid of mine without asking when I went to college in the 2000s
I don't remember what happened to ours. It got replaced by a 486/66 Windows 3.1 PC in 1994.
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Tried reading about endianness once. Pretty sure it can't be dumbed down enough for my brain.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Big Endian Little Endian: "1010" "1010" |||| |||| [1248] [8421] (sum the numbers corresponding to a 1) 1+4=5 8+2=10Depending on whether the order of binary comes from the left (Big Endian) or from the right (Little Endian), the binary number of "1010" can equal 5 or 10
(My original comment was buzzword nonsense though)
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Is your username a beyond all reason reference or a late Roman Empire reference?
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They all got bought by acer and turned into the shittiest brand-name PCs on the planet.
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I’ll see your raise, and up it:
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Please,
Young whippersnappers.
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In my day, the RJ-11 jack was for connecting the keyboard, not the phone line.
Okay that's something I had no idea about hahaha
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My parents got rid of mine without asking when I went to college in the 2000s
I just picked one up for $20. Missing the cable for the double disk drive though and it had a bad psu and I have no disks. Basically it's a money pit. But fun to mess with anyway.
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Don't forget the serial input for gamepads and joysticks in the dedicated sound board for some reason
Except that wasn't a serial port, it was midi, and the reason it was on the sound card was because the input was analog.
Your joystick was just two fancy potentiometers, and your soundcard decoded the voltage on the middle legs into a position.
Soundcards handled joysticks because they had the fastest ADCs.
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But the keyboard is the computer, mice haven’t been invented yet and where do I plug the tape deck in?
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You know how some languages write left-to-right, and some rught-to-left? Endianness is that, for numbers.
Or another analogy is dates: 2025/12/31 is big endian, 31/12/2025 is little endian. And 12/31/2025 is middle endian. Which makes no sense at all because the middle is, by definition, not an end.
I stand corrected. No idea what I was reading (several years ago), but whatever it was made it seem way more complicated. Maybe it was just an explanation from somebody who didn't know.
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PS/2
No, not the PlayStation.....
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Big keyboard jack, serial for mouse, parallel for printer
This one for me. Was born in 82.
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Young whippersnappers.
You kids don't know how good you have it!
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Okay that's something I had no idea about hahaha
The first three Macs had this jack in the front for the keyboard and a PC-like serial port in the back for the mouse. With the Mac SE and II, the switched to ADB, which looked like a PS/2 port, but you could daisy chain your mouse, keyboard, and other inputs like tablets or joysticks all into one jack in the back of the computer.
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Maybe I'm an idiot, but I ordered one when they announced it. I have 2 perfectly good C64s already but the CRT whine drives my dog and kid nuts, so looking forward to HDMI!
I thought the new one would have more capabilities than just running c64 apps. There is a mod of steamdeck kind of like commodore, but it's not perfect either.
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But the keyboard is the computer, mice haven’t been invented yet and where do I plug the tape deck in?
I can also use cartridges!
Well, I could use cartridges...before I loaded a custom ROM via the cartridge slot, and it does almost everything faster, but now I cannot function without it.
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I'm this old.
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"how old are you?"
TURBO!!!
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I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
It was along the right side. I remember it helped to sit a little bit to the right, or angle the keyboard a bit, when playing a two player game, so that the leftmost player's joystick cord would reach.
