Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: I used to play Gorilla and Nibbles with my Pa in this Microsoft Basic thing. Ha! We entered angle and force to throw a banana at the opponent You may be interested in this Python remake of Gorilla: http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2010/06/25/gorilla-py-a-remake-of-gorilla-bas/
Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)
On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My earliest new and shiny then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal all-steel box, with a Turbo switch that toggles a front-panel (7-segment LED) display between 4.77 and 8.00 And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25)... And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood... PC, XT or AT? Fastest system I ever used what dropped down to 4.77MHz was a 33MHz 386.. Not sure... It was a no-name clone... I think it's 8086... Rgds,
Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)
On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My earliest new and shiny then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal all-steel box, with a Turbo switch that toggles a front-panel (7-segment LED) display between 4.77 and 8.00 And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25)... And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood... PC, XT or AT? Fastest system I ever used what dropped down to 4.77MHz was a 33MHz 386.. Not sure... It was a no-name clone... I think it's 8086... Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 MB hard disk. (Or maybe 80? My memory's failing me ATM) Rgds,
Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My earliest new and shiny then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal all-steel box, with a Turbo switch that toggles a front-panel (7-segment LED) display between 4.77 and 8.00 And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25)... And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood... PC, XT or AT? Fastest system I ever used what dropped down to 4.77MHz was a 33MHz 386.. Not sure... It was a no-name clone... I think it's 8086... Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 MB hard disk. (Or maybe 80? My memory's failing me ATM) Our 286 (that Tandy) came with a 20MB hard disk. The 386 I got as a hand-me-down had a 540MB disk. (That was a bit of a golden age for me; I never managed to fill that drive.) -- :wq
Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Our 286 (that Tandy) came with a 20MB hard disk. The 386 I got as a hand-me-down had a 540MB disk. (That was a bit of a golden age for me; I never managed to fill that drive.) I had twice the storage. My 286 had a 40MB hard disk. It also had 1MB of memory but only 640KB was accessible to the system without a memory mapping hack. It ran MSDOS 3.1. (Ah! the late '80s) Gee I had a lot of fun on that machine. I could connect via 1200 baud modem from my home to the university VAX-VMS and use the VAX Wordperfect wordprocessor to do my course work and then send it to the University printer, which produced beautiful results. I wouldn't go back though! I love my HP quadcore laptop running Gentoo. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:56:01AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 MB hard disk. (Or maybe 80? My memory's failing me ATM) I can't imagine not being able to remember the figure, giving the difference of 300%. ;-) Our first family PC did have a 20 MB HDD. I used to play Gorilla and Nibbles with my Pa in this Microsoft Basic thing. Ha! We entered angle and force to throw a banana at the opponent, nowadays kiddies swipe their finger over spyPhones. No wonder education is getting worse. :) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. There is only one way to the lung and it must be tarred.
Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)
Guys, I feel with you - I was there, too. But please stop scaring the youngsters. Nils 2012/1/30 Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:56:01AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 MB hard disk. (Or maybe 80? My memory's failing me ATM) I can't imagine not being able to remember the figure, giving the difference of 300%. ;-) Our first family PC did have a 20 MB HDD. I used to play Gorilla and Nibbles with my Pa in this Microsoft Basic thing. Ha! We entered angle and force to throw a banana at the opponent, nowadays kiddies swipe their finger over spyPhones. No wonder education is getting worse. :)
