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Silver Alicorn posted:has everyone read racing the beam not yet I really need to my old computers I have are a V-Tech Pre-Computer 1000 and 2000 which are toys but are little z80 boxes that can be programmed in Basic that I've had since I was a wee tot I also have a TI-99/4a in storage I should go get; I have a huge pile of cartridges for it and one of those recently-built serial/floppy emulator/ram addition things that I really haven't yet played with. o should eBay the terminal emulator cartridge and post via Lynx or something
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Prenton posted:Usbourne have scanned in a load of their 1980s books so you can learn how to old computer nice! I spent so much time typing programs from these into my Pre-Computer 1000's little 1x20 display e: seriously thanks for this, I just amazon'd Practical Things to Do With A Microcomputer after looking at the PDF and realizing it was the book I had read a hundred times. my partner has been trying to figure out how to actually introduce kids to computers, I figured I'd show him what I got started on. definitely time to dig out the TI-99/4A and he can get frustrated by weird BASIC dialect incompatibilities like we all did when we were kids minivanmegafun fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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I amazon'd the manual to the Pre-Computer 1000 since mine vanished long, long ago (even back when I hacked bad basic into it on a regular basis) I remembered this quote vividly  computers without writeable storage need to come back as learning tools
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a real non-trolling reason is that that appears to not be a SE FDHD (pronounced fudd-hudd) which means it will only accept 800k double-sided floppies if you get one that takes HD floppies you can read/write them in a "modern" computer, and if you install the appropriate extension you can even read/write FAT16 disks e: the usual indicator of that is that there will be a FDHD or SuperDrive stamp near the floppy drive. there's nothing that prevented a previous owner of that Mac from installing an upgraded drive, though. minivanmegafun fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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trilljester posted:You should get it and immediately install The Grouch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE7EWDKVM1Y yesss
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Feb 12, 2016 20:16
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A Pinball Wizard posted:programmers switch no that's a reset button. the SE didn't support that button there anyhow iirc, the classic macs all had a button on the side with a reset button and programmer's switch instead
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the ti-99/4a's video output is dead simple. hack off the Video Modulator and solder on a pair of RCA connectors and you'll get composite video and mono audio in no time. https://www.99er.net/TIvideoadapter.htm e: post teddy
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the 2600 is kind of an interesting case because it puked RF output instead of composite
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