Vintage
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Look at you with your fancy AT port.
Where's my altair with front panel register switches
Ok, I'm not that old either, but still
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Um , b4 that there were serial mice on my tandy
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I raise
edit, actually, it might have been on the back...it's been forever since I touched one
Check this out:
This was why I got into programming.
I still have the book:
It’s so cool:
Lemme know if you want to see more. I thought it’s awesome.
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Same. I remember needing converters for these newfangled PS/2 connectors. Then again, I am old enough that I remember why floppies were called floppies, and used tape for more than just backup. And hard drives being as big as a shoe box and with less storage than you now have as CPU caches.
Was the tape to cover the write protect notch on the floppy?
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Was the tape to cover the write protect notch on the floppy?
Nah, we got them fancy sliding tabs on those. I was talking about loading programs from tape LOL.
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Me too... my first code was for Commodore PET. Then I got an Amiga. Sad day when Commodore folded.
Then you will enjoy the news that Commodore was bought recently and they want to build new equipments, starting with a C64.
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I'm this old.
I'm punchcard Fortran old.
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This old
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Like 30 something?
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Um , b4 that there were serial mice on my tandy
I thought I was hot shit when I got a tape drive for my Tandy that worked about 60% of the time
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Don't forget the serial input for gamepads and joysticks in the dedicated sound board for some reason
And because the PC only have 1 serial port, you disconnect the printer and use a parallel to serial adapter.
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Don't forget the serial input for gamepads and joysticks in the dedicated sound board for some reason
And because the PC only have 1 serial port, you disconnect the printer and use a parallel to serial adapter.
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Old enough
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WDYM old, it's still being used from time to time. For fucky
BIOSUEFI's and for easy NKRO without HID report fuckery -
PS2 keyboards use interrupts rather than polling in USB, meaning every time a key is pressed the CPU stops what its doing to process it.
I'm wondering, is it still the case for mobos with Super IO?
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Check this out:
This was why I got into programming.
I still have the book:
It’s so cool:
Lemme know if you want to see more. I thought it’s awesome.
I have to find my UHf dongle, and it looks like I was playing Star Strike the last time, but I will get this running. I have the manual, after all.
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I worked at a place using a dot matrix printer… in 2013.
Yeah, if you can keep them running, they're surprisingly efficient. And they hardly ever jam. But all the printouts look like garbage and feel like you're trying to interpret ancient runes. When we got our first inkjet printer at home, I suddenly struggled to read anything from the ol' dot matrix.
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Old enough
"hey guys--"
JOYSTICK PORT!
"not what I'm called."
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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.
Likely it was being explained in the context of binary number representation as it is primarily important in computer architecture. If you're not already familiar with that then it was probably confusing explained in that context.
