02-26-2016, 12:38 PM | #1 |
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Nerds R Us
The time has come for the old Nerds to gather and share memories!
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02-26-2016, 01:43 PM | #2 |
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I have been trying to forget those things.
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02-26-2016, 02:02 PM | #3 |
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White over black?
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02-26-2016, 02:04 PM | #4 |
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Amber fonts on CRT screens?
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02-26-2016, 03:00 PM | #5 |
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No one has ever matched the feel of the original 1981 IBM PC Model F keyboard!
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02-26-2016, 03:03 PM | #6 |
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^Agreed. My brother collected them. So much positive feedback and sound. Good grief the sound was terrible for those not doing the typing that were trapped in the vicinity though.
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02-26-2016, 03:24 PM | #7 |
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02-26-2016, 06:11 PM | #8 |
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The IBM Selectric II -- the absolute pinnacle in electric typewriters - with that little font ball ....
[and probably the heaviest of electric typewriters] I loved that device ... |
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Is this where I talk about the X10 system I had in my house back in the 80s?
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02-26-2016, 06:29 PM | #10 |
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Or the A][ari 400 that I hacked to 32Kbytes of RAM?
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Of course a few years later, I had a summer job with IP Sharp in Montreal and remember using a daisy-wheel based terminal; the fun of printing graphics on that device! |
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02-26-2016, 07:41 PM | #12 |
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Who can forget the original Nintendo Duck Hunt?
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02-26-2016, 08:20 PM | #13 |
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What's a memory?
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At my age, memories are precious.
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02-29-2016, 01:39 PM | #15 |
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As I mentioned over in Vent -- pratically nobody has even heard of a "Basis 108", which was an Apple ][ emulator which also did CP/M. In fact, I had to add it myself to the Wikipedia page about "machine which ran CP/M". But I did find a picture online at an Apple ][ emulator page.
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