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Re: Rejected mac ad's
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:37:35 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:
> > > In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote:
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> > > > we ALL had that game.
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> > > > except calum. he had an amiga
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> > > Worse, I had an Apple II. With a green and black monitor.
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> > HEY!!! You dissin' the Apple ][ with green & black monitor????
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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.
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> However, I did learn a few things from it: I was a pioneer in my own time. At
> age six I had discovered the concept of hotswapping cards and drives...except of
> course the Apple II didn't support this...and summarily I destroyed the $1400
> motherboard.
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 programming on it, converting a learning program from a BBC version.
Double-height characters using graphics mode & call 768's all over the place.
Ah, those were the days.
ROSCO
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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)
| | | Re: Rejected mac ad's
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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
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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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