Id really like to hear from you if your one of the pioneers of what is going on now. I used to run a BBS called The Danger Zone which was a really popular site. I upgraded to 1200baud as soon as it hit the market. How lame eh?
Id really like to hear from you if your one of the pioneers of what is going on now. I used to run a BBS called The Danger Zone which was a really popular site. I upgraded to 1200baud as soon as it hit the market. How lame eh?
My first modem, that i stole from my brother once he got is 28.8 was a 14.4, before then i just used his computer.
300 baud modem user!
Got a 300-baud modem (Atari 1030) in 1985. I still remember trying to make the stupid thing work as I got it as a gift but it was bought used (as they cost SO much at the time-- like $200+, and there was no GotApex for deals) and it took me forever to find a terminal program. The program that came with it bit.
I think I finally figured out how to use (I may be getting the names wrong) Amodem 7.24 on my Atari 800XL. Been online ever since! Got an ADC 1200 'Duck' modem in 1987, 2400 baud in 1989, 14.4k in 1994, 33.6 in 1997, 56.6 in 1998, cable modem in 1999. (years may be off a bit!)
(this was after I had tried to buy an acoustic modem with the handset coupler but didn't work as it had the wrong connection to plug into my computer-- luckily I knew enough to check that before buying it outright!)
I remember the days of 300baud modems. How about tape drives for storage, not backup? How about being stoked to find out you could turn single sided floppies into double sided floppies by using a hole punch? Am I dating myself too much?
Do you C-64 owners out there remember the FastLoad cartridge? hehe
Moo
tape drives rocked. The hole punch thing on the 5 1/2 floppies ruled man. I still remember the first 3 1/2 disk! They used to call those hard drives! They have been around for 15 years and they still are here today! amazing
2400 baud baby!!
i didn't get into the computers until the days of 2400 baud modems. But i still remember spending hours downloading lame games, looking for porn off the local BBSs and playing LORD. Those were the dayz, When you could watch it slowly paint a screen of asci characters. LoL
pikers, all of you. I remember using a 120 baud coupler modem to get a paperfeed terminal hooked into the universaty mainframe, just so I could play Oregon Trails Version 1. This was in 1982 or so, I believe, Apple I's had just come out.
I remember going on a field trip to Control Data, and hearing that monochrome monitors would change computing...forever!
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Long live the IBM PCjr with my 300 baud modem!
IBM PCjr
IBM PCjr monitor (CGA + PCjr mode equivalent to EGA)
IBM PCjr keyboard (infrared baby!)
2 IBM PCjr joysticks (literally sticks)
640k memory
300 Baud expansion SIDECARD
2 5.25" Drive Bays
Jumpman/BASIC/PCjr Configure/Mines Cartridges
MS-Dos 3.11
And, of course, Sierra's King's Quest I and Defender of the Crown.
Ah, the memories. Guess the side cards and cartridges never caught on the PC world.
My first box was a TRS-80. No hard drive, two external 5 1/4" floppy drives, and a 1200 baud modem. I had a CompuServe account and did a bunch of chatting. How cool it was at the time...
-OC
C64 and Amiga rock on!
Woohoo! I registered on GotApex just so I could post my two cents for the C-64!
Those were the days -- the infamous 1541 disk drive head knock for copy protection, using Sector Editors on your Ultima IV game to get extra hit points, using a round hole-puncher on my 5.25 cos I was too cheap to buy the square puncher, writing lame games using "sprites." You guys are lucky with 1200 baud. My 300 baud was manual originate (i.e. no auto-dial).
I used to subscribe to Commodore Gazette and type in those 50 page BASIC programs. Somebody shoot me!
Bought an Amiga 500 later on. I still have my C-64 and Amiga sitting in a closet. It's like sentimental value. All the PCs I've owned have been thrown away. Somehow they don't have the character of a Commodore. :-)
Heh, an old TRS-80 Color user here... I used to spend weeks programming basic code, we used to make adventure games. We actually paid money for a cassette of a game called Pyramid from RS, man it really sucked - looking back - but we spent a lot of time on it. I figured I could make a game at least as well as that... It wasn't of course. but it was a good time killer until the 16k ram filled up. I was so proud when I got my first out of memory error!
I also remember feeling superior to my friend because his TRS-80 only had 8k ram. Geez, those were the days eh?
The Aluminum Age
Back in the day I ran a BBS with my best friend. We called it Thievco Main Office. It ran at 300 baud it's whole life! We actually had quite a following! We had picnics and parties; some of the friends I met through that BBS are still friends today. I'l never forget the first time I saw a 1200 baud modem in action: I thought "Man! The text is coming in too fast to read!" heheheh, Then there was the time we were perusing the settings on the original Macintosh: the highest setting was 19200 baud. We shok our heads in disbelief and surmised that this surely must be a setting solely for LAN hookup. Aww, those were the days...
"If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."
AMIGA RULES! thats all i gotta say right now
I had a 300baud with my ol' apple IIc. cool lil modem, sat right under the old style phones(the ones with dials and handsets), got the entire system for a measly 2200 bucks!
Dont remember too clear, but I think it had a 9inch green and blackk monitor, played wizadry all day on that thing!There was a hand printed 'cheat' book in binders that cost me 35 bucks back then, but it was worth it, so I think I was an early cheater too
Finally sold it to some collage kid for 2000 bucks 1 week before the first Mac came out. The IIc was worth about 300 bucks after that. Still remember going online with Compuserve, gotta love those one week free floppies
never abused them tho
Nice lil comp, no HD, a 5 1/4" floppie built right in, and 640k of pure memory, fast machine for its day. Oh, and compuserve was command line back then, too
Weird thinking of a mouse-less comp these days, but that would come with the Mac.
In school I was the first in my school to try the internet(?) running through the U of Minnesota on a teletype that used a 300 i think, an old aucoustic cup modem, but that was way back in 1975-76, if I remember right. Played civil war on it for a class credit in 5th and 6th grade, now talk about cool, rip off your game when your done and turn it in for a grade
That's funny, the U of M was what we used for Oregon Trails.
Those teletypes were cool....
Ready to shoot? Type......POW
computing is fun now, but it is nothing like the joy of the early days. Nothing.
lpmiller
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"The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference." - Calvin and Hobbes
I still have mine. I have a Commodore64c and a 1541 disk drive! And the printer. I even have disks and crap for it. It looks bitchin on my 48" TV ! hahhaah!!! The Danger Zone rocked man. My handle was Crazyace then as it is now! No kidding...
c-64, atari 2600 joysticks
The funniest thing about BBSs back then was when Apple IIc/IIe users posted messages, and C-64 users would reply back "WHY ARE YOU YELLING?" For those of you wondering what this means, Apple computers back then could only type in uppercase! Hahahaha...
CrazyAce, do you still have your Atari 2600 joysticks? Those worked great on the C-64. I remember this 4 player game called Mule on the C-64 (yup, 2 on joysticks, 2 on the keyboard). More fun than any games with fancy graphics.
no i dont have any left (i dont think) but that is what i used primarily
God I loved that game!
Brings back memories of many sleepless nights...
Planet Irata rocked!
Moo
Heck, old Sega gamepads for the Genisis work too...sega got sued for using atari's port design on 'em.Originally posted by mkivman
The funniest thing about BBSs back then was when Apple IIc/IIe users posted messages, and C-64 users would reply back "WHY ARE YOU YELLING?" For those of you wondering what this means, Apple computers back then could only type in uppercase! Hahahaha...
CrazyAce, do you still have your Atari 2600 joysticks? Those worked great on the C-64. I remember this 4 player game called Mule on the C-64 (yup, 2 on joysticks, 2 on the keyboard). More fun than any games with fancy graphics.
Some models of the Oddyssy 2 used modular phone jacks...I always wondered if I could plug that thing into the phone jack and nuke the phone company.
lpmiller
Chief News Editor
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Reverend in the Universal Life Church
Once Shot A Man For Snoring Too Loud
Way Too Lazy To Change His Signature
"The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference." - Calvin and Hobbes
Anyone remember Famers Daughter? The word game?
Farmers Daughter
Man, you are bringing back the memories! I remember playing Farmers Daughter -- it was hilarious. Completely text game, but man it was funny.
Speaking of text games, that reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide, Eliza, and Leisure Suit Larry.
Anybody remember the speech software called SAM on the C-64? Half the fun was trying to make the computerized speech sound as humanly close as possible to cuss words. :-)
We had the VIC-20... I was wowed by my friend's C-64. We played Jupiter Lander at his house.
On ours, we played Road Race, Mouse Hunt (or something similar) and the Commodore version of Pacman with a big C as the Pacman. Oh yeah... and Whack-a-Mole.
Check out this link...
http://www.flashkit.com/arcade/Class...80/index.shtml
I just found it while writing this post.
Dave.
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