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From: paul chinnery [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009 And remember the old text based adventure games? Simple commands like "go right" or "look right." Many were written in BASIC so it was pretty easy to "hack" the program to win. ________________________________ Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:49:56 -0500 Subject: Re: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hey I had the Tandy 1000 too! With colour monitor...wow! On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Maglinger, Paul<[email protected]> wrote: >> I remember buying magazines for the ZX Spectrum that contained games - if >> you had the patience to type in every line of code required. And then >> finding there was a syntax error somewhere on line 5040.... > > They had those in the Commodore magazine. > There was almost always a typo somewhere, or you couldn't always tell if > there was a space (or how many), or if that was a period or a comma. And > once you got it right, you could save it to your cassette recorder! I remember doing similar on a friend's Apple ][, except we could never get the damn tape interface to work right, so we had to leave a big note on the computer saying "DO NOT TOUCH OR TURN OFF!!" and hope the power didn't go out, and only work on one program at a time. I remember when they got the upgrade to the floppy drive -- high tech! The first PC in my (parents) home was a Tandy 1000 SL. It not only came standard with floppy and a whopping 512 KB of RAM, it had MS-DOS in *ROM* -- so you could turn it on and get right to a prompt. Plus it had a clock battery. "Only IBM-PC users know that January 1, 1980 was a Tuesday." -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail(r). See how. <http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_T utorial_QuickAdd_062009> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
