Re: [TCLUG:20067] ancient computers

["Brian Toberman" <tobytoo@black-hole.com>]

I remember playing Lunar Lander on a TI programable calulator, it had
7 segment display and the program was on a strip of cardboard with a
piece of cassette tape glued to the back, yes you could actually peel
the stip of tape off.
  It ate AAA's like popcorn, went through them at a rate of at least
12 batteries evry 2 weeks.

---- Original Message ----
From: mend0070@tc.umn.edu
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org, 
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20067] ancient computers
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:18:41 -0500 (CDT)

>On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Kent Schumacher wrote:
>
>> I used to play adventure off a remote mainframe with my little 
>green
>> screen terminal and 110 baud modem.  It really built tension when 
>you
>> had to wait for each character to display to see what your fate 
>was...
>> 
>> Prior to that I played it on a teletype, but the noise was driving 
>me
>> crazy so I had to quit until I could upgrade to a terminal...
>
>Man, that's like when I played Dungeon from a VAX on a DECWriterII 
>over
>300bps.  To be on a VAX in the late 70's was a big deal, but since 
>Dad
>worked for DEC, it was what we had access to.
>
>When he got the VT100 at home, we saved a few trees.  Or maybe then 
>is
>when we moved up from the acoustic coupled modem to a Racal-Vadic 300
>baud.
>
>Even better was the addition of the Robin motherboard, which 
>converted the
>VT100 to a Z-80 based CP/M microcomputer!  I still have a pile of 
>old 360k
>5 1/4" disks for that.
>
>To complete the trip down nostalgia way, I remember writing Fortran 
>on a
>TI portable terminal, that looked like an oversize portable 
>mechanical
>typewriter and weighed about 50 lbs.  It also used thermal paper!
>
>Any one else ever play Lunar Lander using a lightpen? ;)
>
>Cheers,
>Phil
>
>-- 
>Lottery:    a tax on people who are bad at math
>
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