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do we have the sense of yopsos yet — what is a computer??
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that...................... which computes.
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Feb 6, 2020 07:09
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that’s all. that’s all there is to it.
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Feb 6, 2020 07:10
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first computers are a gateway drug
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Feb 6, 2020 07:18
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fack you posted:vic-20 -> plus/4 (ugh) -> Apple IIc -> IIgs (woz edition yo) -> Mac Plus -> Performa 450 -> iMac Rev B. -> UMAX SuperMac S900 -> nothing cool since then i am confused as to why you went from a g3 based all in one to a... 604 based desktop. Expandability? a g3 upgrade?
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Feb 6, 2020 07:25
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President Beep posted:that...................... i need more evidence op
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Feb 6, 2020 07:29
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Commodore 64 that I got for Christmas and had to exchange the next day because it was broken out of the box (screen was covered with $ characters).
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Feb 6, 2020 07:29
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theadder posted:i need more evidence op ah, how did you come to that conclusion? did you....compute that? (think about it) hmmm??
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Feb 6, 2020 07:35
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I do, op presenting the vtech precomputer 1000  it's got a z80 compatible processor, it runs basic, it has a one line 20 character display, and zero persistent storage somewhere, there's notebook after notebook filled with scribbled basic code for programs that five year old me wrote
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Feb 6, 2020 16:30
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SRQ posted:i am confused as to why you went from a g3 based all in one to a... 604 based desktop. I got a really good deal on it, even though it was already outdated by then. It came with a g3 upgrade. I honestly used the iMac a lot more at the time so I shouldn't have listed it I just wanted to be cool ok
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Feb 6, 2020 16:35
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I am considering buying an Atari 1200XL and a floppy emulator for it.
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Feb 6, 2020 17:19
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President Beep posted:ah, how did you come to that conclusion? no op
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Feb 6, 2020 21:59
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my parents wouldn't buy me a computer so i saved up some money and bought a used computer from the local library that was selling their old computers off it was a 33mhz 486 with 2 scsi cd drives and a 500mb hard drive i think the hard drive might have actually been 1 gig but the bios didnt support it or i didnt know how to do it at the time or something
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Feb 7, 2020 00:27
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Silver Alicorn posted:I am considering buying an Atari 1200XL and a floppy emulator for it. Buy a 800XL instead. The 1200XL is too buggy
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Feb 7, 2020 01:28
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it was probably a mac iivx or one of its contemporaries. it would make sense if my dad bought it after it's big price cut that was a loving good computer:
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Feb 7, 2020 05:46
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a tandy 386 sx 25, windows 3.1, i played a lot of battle chess and cga wheel of fortune on it, and a lot of netscape internet browsing i wish i still had it but i think we sold it to upgrade to a 486 dx 33 a few years later so i could do or play something, maybe encarta?
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Feb 7, 2020 06:03
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fack you posted:I got a really good deal on it, even though it was already outdated by then. It came with a g3 upgrade. I honestly used the iMac a lot more at the time so I shouldn't have listed it I just wanted to be cool ok nah it's pretty cool and if this was 2000 or so you woulda been pretty hot poo poo, that's like using a 2012 maxed out mac pro these days. and equally useless outside of a workstation use case.
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Feb 7, 2020 06:24
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I miss my old dual Pentium III 866mhz BeOS rig, the motherboard blew up and cooked a cpu  that thing screamed! and it could play mp3 files backwards
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Feb 7, 2020 07:29
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yes op
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Feb 7, 2020 07:30
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I remember my older brother playing with a Commodore, then I remember also my father buying a 77 mhz computer or something like that. Good times those were.
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Feb 7, 2020 07:51
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You Am I posted:Buy a 800XL instead. The 1200XL is too buggy thanks. I forgot which one was the good one do you think any of the XE computers are worth getting?
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Feb 7, 2020 22:26
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r u ready to WALK posted:I miss my old dual Pentium III 866mhz BeOS rig, the motherboard blew up and cooked a cpu oh poo poo I should try beos on my dual p3 box
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Feb 7, 2020 22:27
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Silver Alicorn posted:thanks. I forgot which one was the good one The 130XE looks cool. I don't know if it's good or not because I've never used anything else vOv
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Feb 8, 2020 14:36
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looks like the 65XE and 130XE use a different expansion bus from the earlier models, and they were mostly marketed in europe so getting peripherals is probably a pain
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Feb 8, 2020 17:17
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Silver Alicorn posted:thanks. I forgot which one was the good one The 130XE maybe, but by then Jack Tramiel had taken over Atari and cost cut a lot of the components in the XE series compared to the XL, leaving a lot of them buggy due to the GTIA chip issue. Silver Alicorn posted:looks like the 65XE and 130XE use a different expansion bus from the earlier models, and they were mostly marketed in europe so getting peripherals is probably a pain The XE series still used the SIO ports that were around since the 400/800 days, so you can still use printers, tape drives and disk drives from that era
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Feb 9, 2020 01:45
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Who cares - the 130XE looks like a hosed-up ST so everyone should have one!
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Feb 10, 2020 09:59
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to7/70 -> Amiga 500 -> Amiga 1200 (I kept this for like 8 years, turned into a tower mounted monstrosity with a power pc accelerator card and a permedia 2 graphics card) -> ps1 -> dreamcast -> pc running freebsd (lol) -> pc running Windows and linux I was a die hard anti micro$haft idiot for a super long time, I had this riced up Amiga 1200 until like 2001
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