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what is DOS?
youki:
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Ah the memories! The TO7 had horrible parallax errors and you had to crank up the TV brightness way up (yeah, in those days we didn't even use monitors, and saving programs was done with a tape recorder!)
I learned to program and hack hardware on a Sinclair ZX 80 (yeah, it stands for 1980) then on the TO7, which was a pretty good machine for its time.
thanks youki, you always seem to bring back memories (heck, your avatar reminds me of playing Goldorak during recess)
(yeah, I grew up in France although I've lived in the US for most of my adult life)
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=11
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the TO7 with his horrible flat keyboard.... (later they made a TO7/70 more powerfull with a gum keyboard and then some rare with a real keyboard).
the TO7 and T07/70 where the only computer at this time to be provided in Standard with a GENLOCK! You could use it to incruste text on your TV Screen (i mean the text was displayed directly on a TV Show for instance) and then with a video recorder save it on a VHS tape. One of my teacher used that to add subtitle to some little film he made.
knave:
...WOW, I can't resist.
After the obligatory C64 which I loved... my dad sent me to HSC with his geek buddy and they had me build my own screaming XT with a wopping 256K of ram and an amber monichrome monitor. LOL, they set me down in the garage and handed me a bag full of ram chips and said "push these into the slots..." Coolest games I had for it were Risk and Spacewar. (This was probably the best thing my dad could have ever done for me, I learned alot.)
I later franken-upgraded my computer one part at-a-time to a 286 with a VGA monitor over the spam of four years or so. My first HD was 20 megs. It was awesome...until my friend deleted DOS off of it. (Damn del *.* :banghead:)
Ah...those were the days...I still build my computers.
rovingmind:
yeah but not one chip at a time anymore :laugh2:
--- Quote from: knave on April 13, 2007, 03:03:35 pm ---...WOW, I can't resist.
After the obligatory C64 which I loved... my dad sent me to HSC with his geek buddy and they had me build my own screaming XT with a wopping 256K of ram and an amber monichrome monitor. LOL, they set me down in the garage and handed me a bag full of ram chips and said "push these into the slots..." Coolest games I had for it were Risk and Spacewar. (This was probably the best thing my dad could have ever done for me, I learned alot.)
I later franken-upgraded my computer one part at-a-time to a 286 with a VGA monitor over the spam of four years or so. My first HD was 20 megs. It was awesome...until my friend deleted DOS off of it. (Damn del *.* :banghead:)
Ah...those were the days...I still build my computers.
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