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| | | (...) HEY!!! You dissin' the Apple ][ with green & black monitor???? ROSCO (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Rejected mac ad's —Calum Tsang
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| | | | | (...) Worse. It was a clone Apple II Plus called a "Unitron" with an "NPH" and a "Shamrock" Disk II clone floppy drive. The monitor wasn't even an official Apple one, it was a Zenith Data Systems composite input monitor. However, I did learn a few (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | Re: Rejected mac ad's —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | (...) Hey I learned 6502 assembler on mine, remember the Big Mac macro assembler? And I used it to write a program that could squeeze about 5 times as much data on tapes as the standard firmware (yes, I said tapes). And I did my first paid computer (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Rejected mac ad's —David Koudys
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| | | | | | | | | In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Ross Crawford wrote: <snip> (...) The 6502... That number seems to be the 'computer geek' equivalent of the number '23'. Seems to show up in many places. Of course, many inside jokes in the video games I (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Rejected mac ad's —Brian Davis
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| | | | | | | | (...) And thus his future life in a technical field was born... (...) Strangly, I never did have an asembler for the Apple ][. Somehow, my HS friends and I missed that and did everything on graph paper and raw hex code. The best part was when we (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | Re: Rejected mac ad's —Steve Hassenplug
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| | | | | | | (...) I used to sell Apple ][ clones for a mail-order company. (ok so I answered the phone). That was a great high-school job, until the company was raided by customs... And, at one time I had a program that made the floppy drive sound like it was (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | Re: Rejected mac ad's —Rob Antonishen
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| | | | | | (...) Zenith!!?! My first PC was a Zenith. 4.77Mhz with a "turbo" button to run it at 8Mhz (thought he games wouldn't run at the fast speed as most of them relied on the clock). Also included: 640k RAM (I upgraded from the factory 512k) 5MB Hard (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Rejected mac ad's —Calum Tsang
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, it was a crappy monitor. (...) That was about what the Amiga cost. Calum (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Rejected mac ad's —Iain Hendry
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| | | | I like my iMac, because it's pretty. -Iain (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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