I remember playing Lunar Lander on a TI programable calulator, it had 7 segment display and the program was on a strip of cardboard with a piece of cassette tape glued to the back, yes you could actually peel the stip of tape off. It ate AAA's like popcorn, went through them at a rate of at least 12 batteries evry 2 weeks. ---- Original Message ---- From: mend0070 at tc.umn.edu To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org, Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20067] ancient computers Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:18:41 -0500 (CDT) >On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Kent Schumacher wrote: > >> I used to play adventure off a remote mainframe with my little >green >> screen terminal and 110 baud modem. It really built tension when >you >> had to wait for each character to display to see what your fate >was... >> >> Prior to that I played it on a teletype, but the noise was driving >me >> crazy so I had to quit until I could upgrade to a terminal... > >Man, that's like when I played Dungeon from a VAX on a DECWriterII >over >300bps. To be on a VAX in the late 70's was a big deal, but since >Dad >worked for DEC, it was what we had access to. > >When he got the VT100 at home, we saved a few trees. Or maybe then >is >when we moved up from the acoustic coupled modem to a Racal-Vadic 300 >baud. > >Even better was the addition of the Robin motherboard, which >converted the >VT100 to a Z-80 based CP/M microcomputer! I still have a pile of >old 360k >5 1/4" disks for that. > >To complete the trip down nostalgia way, I remember writing Fortran >on a >TI portable terminal, that looked like an oversize portable >mechanical >typewriter and weighed about 50 lbs. It also used thermal paper! > >Any one else ever play Lunar Lander using a lightpen? ;) > >Cheers, >Phil > >-- >Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org >For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org