Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Charles Gregory spake: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Those were the days. A few poke and peek commands, 15 minutes waiting for the cassette tape to load the pirated game... Biggest thrill for me was reverse-egineering the 'fast loader' code in one of the games so that I

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: No cpm here, but what was once os-9, now nitros-9 because we changed the cpu to a hitachi 6309, cmos smarter, then re-wrote os-9. Both levels. No CP/M here either, but I have a working Flex 09 relic - MC6809 with parallel connected

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. For your amusement:

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 17.12.2009 23:10, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 17.12.2009 23:10, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote:

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my

OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. For your amusement: I still have my old Commodore 64 and 1541 drive sitting in the basement. One year my daughter's

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Benny Pedersen
On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. For your amusement: I still have my old Commodore 64 and 1541

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. For your amusement: I still have my old Commodore 64 and 1541 drive sitting in the basement.

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:05:18 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote: Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. For your

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Those were the days. A few poke and peek commands, 15 minutes waiting for the cassette tape to load the pirated game... Biggest thrill for me was reverse-egineering the 'fast loader' code in one of the games so that I could create my own TSR that

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. For your

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Wolfe wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: [...] kids need to know how little is needed to do simple things, and when thay have seen it, thay will code much

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Dave Pooser
On 12/16/09 8:20 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: I agree Benny. To demo that, I have the old coco2 that acted like a $20,000 dollar Grass Valley Group E-Disk for the production video switchers in the 300 series they made about 20 years ago. For $245 worth of stuff, its 4x

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Dave Pooser wrote: On 12/16/09 8:20 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: I agree Benny. To demo that, I have the old coco2 that acted like a $20,000 dollar Grass Valley Group E-Disk for the production video switchers in the 300 series they made about

Re: [OT] Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Eray Aslan
[Replying randomly to one of the emails in the thread] On 17.12.2009 05:41, David B Funk wrote: Hah, I've still got my SWTPC 6800 but it's been hopped up. It's got the original M6800 plus a 6809 and a Z80. Havn't fired it up in decades, so don't know if it'll still boot. ;()