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ChesusRice

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heckler73 said:
Ooohhhh, a Sinclair...I have vague memories of those, but the Vic-20 and C-64 were coming around that time, too. So I didn't know many Sinclair owners.


It's kind of cool, actually. The Keyboard is already set up for BASIC using hotkeys.

HOLY SHIT! They still make software for it?!?!? :lol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
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Was the C64 good for anything?

And my first use of a computer was thru a modem, where you actually put the headset into it.
I think the baud rate was like 300. The monitor was a teletype machine
 
Doer

Doer

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Of course, the entire point was that England did not colonize America, we fought for that. There was not America until 1776.

And France, Spain, the Dutch, and others had Colonies here as well.
 
tokingtiger

tokingtiger

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wow, a white nationalist, or SkinHead Nazi is a liberal left? me thinks you have no idea what you are talking about... fascism, Nazi, they all live to the extreme right, Right with Tea Party. Occupy is somewhere in the middle also, we look at real issues with blinders on but the Constitution under our nose.. comes from all those times with Ron Paul people in the camps. Actually a very pleasant mix.
 
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schuylaar

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heckler73 said:
WANG used to make good institutional servers waaaaaay back in the day.
I think the first time I saw a computer it was a WANG (followed shortly after by a TRS Model-III, IIRC).



whoa..talk about a blast from the past..i remember keying insurance company info on one of these..everything was numerical value with description attached to numeral..you could key ahead if you knew the screens and wait for it to catch up..kind of a game to pass the time.

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heckler73

heckler73

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ChesusRice said:
Was the C64 good for anything?

And my first use of a computer was thru a modem, where you actually put the headset into it.
I think the baud rate was like 300. The monitor was a teletype machine
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The C64, around my area anyway, was the game box of choice. But when the 286 CPUs came out, that spelled the beginning of the end...
Fuck Apple...
Later, surplus C64s were sent to the Eastern Bloc, where they were used in industry.
I recall one story of a country like Slovenia using them to manage an auto assembly line.
So yes, C64s were good for "something" other than 100s of hours wasted on EPYX Summer/Winter Games, or Rock'n'Wrestling, or Jumpman Jr. or Gunship or...they were MCUs, after all.
 
AlecTheGardener

AlecTheGardener

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Harrekin said:
I'm pretty sure the British Empire colonised America, then some little knacker upstarts decided they didn't wanna pay the Crown anymore.

Essentially, America was founded by tax defaulters who owned slaves.
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Our independence mostly comes down to our GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO SMUGGLE, to avoid paying taxes on goods after the Seven Years War.

Colonial courts were very forgiving to suspected smugglers, the sugar act of 1764 actually took away the jurisdiction of colonial courts in these cases, crown courts carried out trails for smuggling. Colonial courts were lenient on smugglers, who doesn't like super cheap goods? Taxes on molasses from .06¢ to .03¢ per gallon, VERY OPPRESSIVE. This angered people enough because they started enforcing the taxes and began actually jailing smugglers.

Then came the stamp act. Then that repealed quickly. Declatory act, HAHAHA!

Then Towenshend Acts, can't have that, interferes with our smuggling again.

'Whelp, I guess we should all get drunk and start a war. I need to get back to smuggling, let's make it quick!'

MURICA! Fuck taxes! . . . Until we need to pay for a war. A bit like a teenager who is going through a rough time, body is changing, thinks his Dad George doesn't spend enough time with him. We start sneaking about and acting out. Daddy neglected us too long after we started sneaking out of the house. He didn't treat us like an adult, how could he? We were acting like assholes, but he didn't need to be so firm.

Also, it makes no sense for an isle to govern a continent.
 
WORDZofWORDZCRAFT

WORDZofWORDZCRAFT

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ChesusRice said:
Was the C64 good for anything?

And my first use of a computer was thru a modem, where you actually put the headset into it.
I think the baud rate was like 300. The monitor was a teletype machine
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yeah dawg poor kids could plug a sega saturn into the monitor they got for free from school and play vidya games in a mix of sepia and color
 
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