SSI was bought out by I forget but eventually i think EA owes them now.
Or maybe it is Eidos, one of the big companies owns them now i know.
I miss SSI too Steel Panthers was an awesome game i am glad at least
they released it to public domain. Now you can play Steel Panthers:
World At War i think its called free. It's still an awesome game
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-----Original Message-----
From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:30 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: The old days
First I really used was a commodore pet workstation in front of I
believe a
vax/vms system(it was a really long time ago).
First computer we owned was a vic 20. The 64 and the 128 really had
some
awesome games. D&D let SSI produce all their games back then and they
were
great. SSI made a lot of really great games actually. Huh, wonder if
their
still around.
Timothy Heald
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Overseas Security Advisory Council
U.S. Department of State
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:18 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: The old days
Mine was an Atari. I had to use a small black and white tv for the
monitor,
and a cassette drive for storage.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 6:21 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re:The old days
Hmmmph, young 'un,
my first "pc" (not counting the C64) was the original IBM with 5 slots,
full-height single-sided floppy drives, a port for a cassette recorder,
no
hard disk, and DOS 1.1. Windows? not even a wet dream yet. Internet? Ha.
And I had to walk 3 miles through the snow to use it (in California)
<g>.
Much later, my first modem was a 300 baud. All you could connect to for
downloading were bulletin boards, if you were really lucky to be able to
connect.
>hey guys, I would like to know of any stories you might want to share
>about the old days when chatting/computer was just for geeks and the
>internet was dormant. Here's mine
>
>I used a 637 Performa CD mack that came with 300MB of space. Half of
>that space was taken up by software and the operating system. I had
>to constantly delete anything i can to save precious space. The
>coolest game i played on it was Burn Cycle, which i still believe is
>the coolest game ever. The first time I got internet was AOL 2.6,
>with a 2.4kbps modem. CHatting was so fun, and that IM sound so
>catchy. It would take anywhere from 5-10 minutes for my modem to load
>up a decent page with a fair amount of graphics. I would just walk
>away for a bit and do something else. When i got my $150 56k modem,
>things were alot more nicer!
>
>Also, I subscribed to computer magazines and used to drool over 150mhz
>machines.
>
>
>Comparing then to now, I'd say that i've been getting more impatient
>and greedier. I know thats a bad thing, but I'd rather have it this
>way, at least with
technology!
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