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| Flack:
--- Quote from: gnateye on August 23, 2006, 02:47:12 pm ---we used to run one called "the dark side of the moon" back in 1982-5, ran it on a atari 800, with an audio coupler modem, my parents didnt even have a clue. --- End quote --- I'm pretty sure every area code had a BBS called "The Dark Side of the Moon." I know we had (at least) one here in 405. It was kind like having a kid who went by "Metallica". I think everybody knew one. --- Quote from: Havok on August 23, 2006, 04:31:43 pm ---I'm going to have to pick up a copy of this book - I miss the days of shoeboxes full of floppies, and using the "disk doubler" to punch a hole in the disk so I could use them on both sides... --- End quote --- As you will see in the book, I gave up on shoeboxes and now have everything piled into a milk crate. Makes it a ---smurfette--- to find anything, but it's much easier to store! I have been picking up old school disk boxes from thrift stores for a buck or two over the past few months. Although it takes up a lot more shelf space, I may end up moving everything from the milkcrate back into those disk boxes once again. Oh, and I still have my old disk doubler too. I showed it to my dad recently and he said, "harumph. Real men just used a hole punch, and if we missed we just kept punching them until we got it right." --- Quote from: SteveJ34 on August 23, 2006, 10:04:03 pm ---Ah yes, I remember when we hit 1200 baud...we thought we were in tall cotton back then. --- End quote --- I remember people arguing that 1200 baud was a waste because the messages scrolled by faster than you could read them at that point. ;) --- Quote from: SteveJ34 on August 23, 2006, 10:04:03 pm ---Thanks for putting your memories into print which have spawned an opportunity this evening for me to relive mine. --- End quote --- That's the whole point. :) --- Quote from: Stingray on August 24, 2006, 01:59:46 pm ---Very cool Flack! I had no idea you were writing a book. I will definitely be picking up a copy. --- End quote --- You would have known if you had been at OVGE this year! :P Sorry I'm so late getting back to the party -- the good news is, I've been busy shipping books! Thanks to everyone who's purchased one so far. |
| Hoopz:
--- Quote from: Flack on August 28, 2006, 11:41:10 am ---[ --- Quote from: Havok on August 23, 2006, 04:31:43 pm ---I'm going to have to pick up a copy of this book - I miss the days of shoeboxes full of floppies, and using the "disk doubler" to punch a hole in the disk so I could use them on both sides... --- End quote --- Oh, and I still have my old disk doubler too. I showed it to my dad recently and he said, "harumph. Real men just used a hole punch, and if we missed we just kept punching them until we got it right." --- End quote --- Just as easy and much cheaper! I remember those days. :D |
| yuppicide:
I didn't read Chapter 1, but I'll maybe do it tonight. I was there with you as well, maybe even more so. I ran up a $1700 phonebill dialing out on my Commodore 64. I learned to type in the dark so nobody would see me on the computer at night.. the result?! I type about 90 words per minute with only a combination of two fingers and no looking. I know when I make mistakes. I used to have about 1000 3.5" 1581 floppies. I had a modified C64 with dual SID chip and a 4 watt amplifier inside. I had JiffyDOS. I had acess to elite boards and to elite BBS programs that weren't released to the public. You had to know people to get them and only a handful of BBSes used the software, but man were they cool looking. I went into the PC BBS scene as well. I did ANSi/ASCii art for a few groups. I remember a BBS right around the corner from my house got shut down for piracy. There's a website online that you can download every old BBS program in one large zip. |
| Ifko:
the commodore 64 days....over 20 years ago... Load"name",8,1 wasnt directory load"$",8 ??? or something like that Remember when the newest version of Fast Hackem X.X came out.... you just had to get it ...almost like "the new phone books are here" in the movie The Jerk. Anyone remeber... ICE PIC... it's not only allowed you to duplicate programs, but it made the copied programs boot up faster. All I have to say is EA's "One on One" with Dr J and Larry Bird was one of the Shiizzznitt games of all time. My parents retired and moved away a few months ago, they made me take all my stuff, I still have everything..including the monitor, and all the shoeboxes. Scott Detroit |
| Flack:
While digging through C64 stuff over the weekend, I took this picture for you. Final Cartridges (the blue and red ones) offered both Fast Loading as well as memory dumps, monitors, and other neat things. The Isepic cart allowed you to dump whatever was in memory into a bootable executable. |
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