I was soooo excited when I got my Hercules card! That computer was a 10 MHz speed-monster with a gigantic 83 KB hard drive. And WOW, graphics with my new Hercules card! I had such fun running stupid little programs that would make a globe turn, not to mention being able to type in Arabic and see it on the monitor. (Never mind that it took me hours to compose a letter in Arabic.)
Before that ... well, it was Intel MDS and Isis, and Computer Automation, and DEC PDP's, and a bunch of OS's and pointer-based line editors that haven't existed for a reallllly long time now... We had block printers! Remember those? Did you say something about arthritis cream, Bambi ?? --JoJo -----Original Message----- Bambi Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I had a Hercules card too. I needed it to play some RPG game. Funny how many geeks had amber. I was so sick of the green on the VT and Vulcan boxes, I would sniff around for a tvi912c or tvi925 with it's baby blue. And then, of course the VT2xx series came out with its amber and everything was terrific. When I finally got off of VAXes, I was up to something like a VT460 only to go into Unix and set my TERM=vt100. How Neolithic. Pass the arthritis cream. Bambi. -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Actually, the Hercules graphics is able to generate graphics. I had to settle for Hercules since I could not afford a color monitor(using a CGA card) back then. So I looked for games, etc. that had a Hercules graphics mode. And, Hercules used twice the amount of pixels then CGA did, so I was able to find emulation software that allowed me to play CGA color games on my Hercules card. It replaced the limited CGA color pallete with patterns on the amber monitor. Sigh. The good old days... -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I do. User Friendly Interface. Hush, don't tell anybody, but I started with Oracle 4 on PC/XT with a huge, 20MB Winchester hard drive. The whole machine has had a Hercules screen card (text only, no graphics) and 512KB (no, it's not a mistake, it really is the letter "K") of memory. I still have those 3 big, grey boxes with 5 5.25" floppies which used to contain the whole installation. Unfortunately, I cannot install it because I no longer have DOS 3.3 which was required for Oracle 4. Oh well, I seem to be getting old. -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Holy cow Mladen, what a memory! Does anybody else remember (or admit to) using UFI? 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