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28th April 2007, 01:23 AM #1
Dances with splinters
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Thanks for the RAMories...
Having quite a bit of spare time on my hands lately (I wonder why?
Thanks Cyc, for rescuing me from terminal housework! 
) I was shanghaied into a serious "sort'n'save" of my computer spares. Some 30 odd years worth of odds'n'sods that've accumulated from many, many repairs. Heartbreakingly, I've thrown out a LOT of ancient boxed PC SW (like... DOS 4.1 
), monitors and "pop-top" computers, even some 1200/75 modems! 
But some things I just cannot bear to dispose of, so I've made a "Memory Wall." Any-one spot anything familiar in these pix?
Attachment 44798Attachment 44799Attachment 44800Attachment 44802
And what good is any of this without something to run it on? Well...
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All well used, there's one set up to reflect every mod made to the A500 & A1k2. From a "virgin" A500 with 512k RAM and the ol' Fat Agnes thru to one fully chipped out, with 32MB RAM on daughter-boards and 8 PAR/SER ports. Plus I discovered that I still have an A1200 in as new condition (never been taken out of the box) and a couple of A2000s. One is still set up from my BBS days, with 3x SCSI cards & 28x500MB-3GB HDDs(!!), 6x CD-stacker and multiple SER ports, still all ready to spring to life at the flick of a switch!
I hate to admit it, but I did have some fun doing the cleaning. (SSSH! Don't tell SWMBO!) I found some bloody good memories in there...
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28th April 2007, 01:58 AM #2
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um.. you don't mind playing adventure games?
Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!
Any-one spot anything familiar in these pix?
I don't see Morrowind there.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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28th April 2007, 02:02 AM #3
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ummmm. WOW.
Not really much else to say, other that if you still have some spare time, you are definately going to have fun revisiting those games
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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28th April 2007, 02:11 AM #4
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Amigas? You should have them bronzed.
Cheers,
Bob
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28th April 2007, 02:57 PM #5rrich Guest
LANtastic
BTW - I have a copy of the original (PDP-10) source code for the game "Adventure" but it's on magnetic tape.
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28th April 2007, 08:54 PM #6
Dances with splinters
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That too. Originally Posted by martrix
um.. you don't mind playing adventure games?
But there's quite a few of the early 3D modelling and anim SW there. The great-grandaddy's of today's CGI.
Bronzed? Originally Posted by Honorary Bloke
Amigas? You should have them bronzed. Do you have any idea how hard it is to read bronze letters on bronze keys? You'd think that after all these years I'd have learnt to touch-type... but no... I have become one of the world's fastest two-finger typists though...
Agreed. I also kept a copy of Win95 & Office95. It's a memory wall... who says that all the memories have to be good? Originally Posted by rrich
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Good luck trying to load it! I've still got a few tapes lying around too, such exciting games as "Lunar Lander."BTW - I have a copy of the original (PDP-10) source code for the game "Adventure" but it's on magnetic tape.
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28th April 2007, 09:02 PM #7
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Dude,
Where were the 8 inch disks..... I couple see every other size..
I think I still have a box of them somewhere, nothing to read them, but still have the disks, might make a place-mat set one day. 8 inch for plates, and the 5 1/4's for glasses.I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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28th April 2007, 09:11 PM #8
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Superbase, ewww, better brown bag that one. Was that an old box of Clipper reversed on the RH shelf (more to my liking).
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28th April 2007, 09:12 PM #9
Sum ergo cogito (Cogito)
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What? No Kaypro or Osborne? And where's all your punched cards?
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Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain
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30th April 2007, 03:22 PM #10rrich Guest
Ah! The only other computer game managed to keep my attention for more 10 minutes! Is your tape magnetic or paper? Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!
Good luck trying to load it! I've still got a few tapes lying around too, such exciting games as "Lunar Lander."
Did you ever find the "cave" in the mountain?
Did you ever try to land on the roof of McDonalds?
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