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What used to drive me nuts about the C64 was that it would overheat after it was on for many hours. I used to place it up on some little blocks of wood and had my own fans to counteract it.
One thing I distinctly remember is the atari joystick that was permanently bent forward from playing "Test Drive" AKA "Need for Speed" and "Pitstop".
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I don't remember anything prior to CDs and CD drives.
Reading through all these comments just gave me a much better appreciation of how super smart computer geeks were back then. People we worked with and learned a lot from. Those who programmed in 1's and 0's. And Assembler and Fortran and C. Those who could read a memory dump and say: "Ah, there's the problem" ... pointing out a byte in the dump. Probably all retired now.
I think computers were more interesting back in the day because it was a nascent thing. Everyone takes the Internet and computers for granted now. It's just expected that everyone has a computer and a high-speed connection. Back in the day it was truly odd for someone to have a computer and be whiling away their days hacking in Basic programs.
Back in the day it was truly odd for someone to have a computer and be whiling away their days hacking in Basic programs.
Oh yea, real fun on computers when everyone had their own version of DOS. I just loved TRSDOS on my model 3 and had to use 5.25 disks to boot it. I dont know what I miss more: My green screen or my red screen on my plasma computer from Grid.
The big jump forward was the 10 meg hard drive and dos 2.11 and the birth of the Tandy 1000 series.
I'll stop too many bad memories of spending hours on end to hsect,fdisk,format a hard drive.
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Reading through all these comments just gave me a much better appreciation of how super smart computer geeks were back then. People we worked with and learned a lot from. Those who programmed in 1's and 0's. And Assembler and Fortran and C. Those who could read a memory dump and say: "Ah, there's the problem" ... pointing out a byte in the dump. Probably all retired now.
No, although the version of dumps we play with in the UNIVAC (Unisys) world is somewhat different from the IBM guys. We still do octal dumps, 36-bit words, and even FIELDATA at times.
There's a lot of Fortran still in production. Guess what generates the flight plans at most airlines ... still?
Reading through all these comments just gave me a much better appreciation of how super smart computer geeks were back then. People we worked with and learned a lot from. Those who programmed in 1's and 0's. And Assembler and Fortran and C. Those who could read a memory dump and say: "Ah, there's the problem" ... pointing out a byte in the dump. Probably all retired now.
Being handed a 16" thick COBOL source code printout and hearing "there's a problem, charlie just quit and his program won't compile, fix it.
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