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Originally Posted by axis1
And you might have me by a few years dude, but I remember BASIC, because I owned a PET!!! Might not be as old as that device you mentioned, but either one when switched on would probably boot up to the same blinking cursor(actually, you PROBABLY had one of the first personal PC's, but the PET ONLY operated in BASIC - Beginner's All-Purpose Instruction Code, if I remember correctly - see, some of my synapses are OK though I can't for the life of me figure how or why!).
Ahh . . these strolls down memory lane make me wanna throw on some Floyd and light up a doob!! Those were the days, huh?
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Actually, the Exidy Sorcerer booted into the operating system CP/M. Remember that one? That was pre-Microsoft DOS.
Basic had to be loaded as a program. Via audio tape, no less. I used to tie into "The Source" in Virginia with a 300 baud modem. Those were the good old days when you could actually read the text as it scrolled across the screen in real time. Then I went to a 1200 baud modem, and it's never been the same since.
I think I still have a couple of boxes of REAL floppy disks. The 8 inch variety.
Now I look at these little 64 gb microSD cards the size of a fingernail and you have to wonder what things will be like 20 years from now. Who would have ever thought 20 years ago that we would be watching satellite weather features in nearly real time and using Google Earth to virtually drive down nearly any road you want to as well as fly over spots you will certainly never visit in real life. And who ever would have thought that nearly every living human being would wind up with having a cell phone virtually grafted to their head? Back in my day, you used to tell when someone was crazy and talking to themselves. Or someone was drunk while driving down the road. Now, it's a good chance they are on a cell phone. Go figure...
Speaking of Pink Floyd, a long while back Connie and I were living in a townhouse, and are neighbors were playing their TV or stereo pretty loud at 3am. So I got pissed. I turned my own speakers to face the wall between them and us, and cranked up Dark Side of the Moon so the hearbeat pretty nearly cracked the drywall. I thought I heard someone screaming over there, but the sure as heck shut down their own noise after that.