TOS wrote:Metacell wrote:ukimalefu wrote:
All you had to do was cut your own write-notch into the side, and you could make every single-sided floppy a double.
you weren't a real geek unless you had a big, strong hole punch
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ukimalefu wrote:TOS wrote:Metacell wrote:ukimalefu wrote:
All you had to do was cut your own write-notch into the side, and you could make every single-sided floppy a double.
you weren't a real geek unless you had a big, strong hole punch
I had one of those. But it was black. I had several hundred games for my Commodore 64. About 5 or 6 that I actually paid for.
I'm sorry Dave...
Warin wrote:ukimalefu wrote:TOS wrote:Metacell wrote:ukimalefu wrote:
All you had to do was cut your own write-notch into the side, and you could make every single-sided floppy a double.
you weren't a real geek unless you had a big, strong hole punch
I had one of those. But it was black. I had several hundred games for my Commodore 64. About 5 or 6 that I actually paid for.
i still have my floppies in the basement!
"TOS ain’t havin no horserace round here. “Policies” is the coin of the realm." -- iDaemon
This despite enough placement in the "news" that would embarrass Bernays.
Pyke notte thy nostrellys
Warin wrote:ukimalefu wrote:TOS wrote:Metacell wrote:ukimalefu wrote:
All you had to do was cut your own write-notch into the side, and you could make every single-sided floppy a double.
you weren't a real geek unless you had a big, strong hole punch
I had one of those. But it was black. I had several hundred games for my Commodore 64. About 5 or 6 that I actually paid for.
I have a few unopened cases of those. I still regularly use them in my 8032 PET. My Win98 backup PC has one as well. I occasionally recover old documents for clients with it.
Pyke notte thy nostrellys
For a while there Sting thought he was Lord Byron.
Pyke notte thy nostrellys
Happy Victoria Day.
Pyke notte thy nostrellys
Séamas wrote: She *almost* looks amused.
Perhaps, but she looks totally hot.
ukimalefu wrote:
Holy crap, I had that exact modem for years! Interestingly, it used a Rockwell DSP chip that was upgradable. By the time I took it out of service, it was capable of doing 33.6kbps. 56kbps required more advanced modem codecs than the hardware could support, so I had to replace it when that became the standard, but that was an unbelievable little modem in its day.
Metacell wrote: I think it looks pretty real, still. For a manual mockup.
It still looked real in the theme park too.
Of course, I was probably about 7 or 8 when I saw it, but it was scary.
maurvir wrote:Metacell wrote: I think it looks pretty real, still. For a manual mockup.
It still looked real in the theme park too.
Of course, I was probably about 7 or 8 when I saw it, but it was scary.
omg same here!
do you remember the fisherman being pulled under the water?
"TOS ain’t havin no horserace round here. “Policies” is the coin of the realm." -- iDaemon
maurvir wrote:ukimalefu wrote:
Holy crap, I had that exact modem for years! Interestingly, it used a Rockwell DSP chip that was upgradable. By the time I took it out of service, it was capable of doing 33.6kbps. 56kbps required more advanced modem codecs than the hardware could support, so I had to replace it when that became the standard, but that was an unbelievable little modem in its day.
Supra was bought by Diamond. They still sell modems. Made DSL modems for a while too.
https://www.diamondmm.com/product-category/modems/
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TOS wrote:maurvir wrote:Metacell wrote: I think it looks pretty real, still. For a manual mockup.
It still looked real in the theme park too.
Of course, I was probably about 7 or 8 when I saw it, but it was scary.
omg same here!
do you remember the fisherman being pulled under the water?
They just tracked a Great White in the Long Island Sound--off the coast of Greenwich CT. First time they ever confirmed one in those waters.
Had this happened when I was a kid, I would not have ever gone swimming in the sound.
And Proteus brought the upright beast into the garden and chained him to a tree and the children did make sport of him.
ukimalefu wrote:
i remember that "digital lifestyle" campaign
at the time i thought, "yeah, okay, steve jobs is a genius"
"TOS ain’t havin no horserace round here. “Policies” is the coin of the realm." -- iDaemon
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TOS wrote:ukimalefu wrote:
i remember that "digital lifestyle" campaign
at the time i thought, "yeah, okay, steve jobs is a genius"
Much more powerful versions of all of those things now fit in your pocket at the same time.
