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| Valence:
--- Quote from: AlanS17 on July 15, 2003, 12:57:14 am ---I don't see how it could execute the second line, though, if the first one deletes everything. --- End quote --- I'm pretty sure that is what an "Autoconfig.sys" file is, being edited in dos. So the next time the computer is booted. That is when it would delete the hardrive. This is what some of the older nasty virii did. Edit this file, when rebooted, it would "hook it up" If this file was in the C: root. Even up to winME it would read it. |
| 1UP:
I remember going with my dad to his computer class (I used any excuse to see a real live computer back then!) The code was stored on punch cards (anyone remember those?) and the display was a printer -- daisy-wheel, not dot-matrix... I remember my cousin brought over his Apple II, running a knockoff of Pac-Man on the monochrome green monitor. Instead of turning blue, a little hatch would open on the top of the ghosts heads when they were vulnerable... Later, I learned BASIC programming at 11, using the clunky old monochrome Commodore PET. Halfway thru the school year, my Dad bought a C64, and I used to take the tape drive with me to school so I could work on my programs at home! Wow, exciting stuff!! The best feature of the tape drive was that you had to go by the counter to figure out where all your programs were, meaning that if you'd removed the tape, you'd have to rewind the whole thing, reset the counter, and then fast-forward to the proper location. And you think downloads are slow? Try loading a 30k game off tape for 20 minutes! ;) |
| Brax:
And then there was the C64 disk drive!!! Heaven! Only 300 dollars bought you a floppy drive that could load that same program in only 2 minutes! Light speed! |
| Spaced Invader:
--- Quote from: TheTick on July 15, 2003, 11:57:50 am ---Really, no beep? Even the terminals that main output device was a printer had a bell character. --- End quote --- My KIM-1 was silent...though it seems like sound was an option? |
| ErikRuud:
1Up, I not only remeber punch cards, but I actually had to work with them 18 years ago. I've also seen paper punch tapes in use. Let's see, in chronological order I had: Sears Telegames Pong machine. Commodore PET computer (All in one unit, Keyboard, cassette player, b&w monitor, no sound) Magnavox Oddyssey 2 game system with Voice! (I still have it and it still works) Commodore Vic-20 (Many programs entered from magazines, I even wrote two games myself) Commodore 128 Commodore Amiga 2000 Sega Genesis (I still have this one too) Packard Bell 100 mhz pentium PC (Later upgraded to 200 mhz) Hewlett Packard 233 mhz pentium (My current MAME PC) E-Machines 1.8 ghz PC |
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