(Do you think I could cram a mini-Linux kernel into my 16k Timex?)
Of course, we had Apple IIs at school. Applesoft?!?!?!? Oh well, at least you could always program in Apple Pascal. Aaron, I still remember how to type C-A-T-A-L-O-G. That was painful indeed - and I consider D-I-R to be two letters too long - but not as bad as spending ten minutes loading a 16k program off cassette at 300 baud. (At least I missed punch cards! *LOL*)
My point is, that I'd never heard of Apple DOS until...yesterday!!! *ROFLMAO*
On an even more completely unrelated note, the cost of a 360k 5-1/4" floppy was about $5 then. If we say that inflation has been at least 100% since then (and that's pretty optimistic) that's about $10 in 2003 dollars. You can buy 700MB CD-Rs for $1 now. (If you want to avoid the copying levy, I noticed that some places, like dollar stores, don't collect it - not saying anything about the quality, though.) So that's...hmmm...(($10/360E3)/($1/700E6)) = four orders of magnitude cheaper, or 1944444%. 720 kB external floppy drives were $700 then, five times the cost of a CD-RW drive now (allowing for inflation).
Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
i still remember the chunka-chunka sound the DiskII drives made if you forgot to put a disk in or close the door properly.. i also remember the stupidly long command names. CATALOG? seven letters just to list files? the integrated BASIC interpreter stuff kicked ass, though, as did the hi-res colour graphics (for the time of course =)
