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"Expensive Apple computers were for kids of engineering managers and math geniuses like Eric, while Atari was made for kids who might one day end up on skid row."
Also catching up on Antic podcast, and I find out there's an Atari podcast I wasn't aware of: Into the Vertical Blank. So I have 100+ hours of Atari fanboying to listen to!
https://intotheverticalblank.com
#atari #retrocomputing
A reminder that the past is a beautiful and also very problematic place.
I was just paging in a couple to see the table of contents, and there's a long series of these sexist card reader ads. Pregnant. Shopping. Angry. Every '60s stereotype of women, they do it!
Also the guys in this magazine are the squarest, whitest, WASPiest, Army birth control glasses wearin' motherfuckers you've ever seen.
Whew. Don't take me back that far. I'm a hippie to these assholes.
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green hemispheres in every combination, luminance
time sharing
DATAMATION
November 64
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yellow-orange rocket glow color
Saturn rocket being launched
hand down to button
programming on-line systems
DATAMATION May 63
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Our optical reader can do anything your keypunch operators do.
(Well, almost.)
<cute girl at water cooler>
It can't goof off at the water cooler. Or file its nails. Or eat lunch. But it can read.
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Our optical reader can do anything your keypunch operators do.
(Well, almost.)
<cute girl hugs indifferent suited asshole>
It can't make time on company time. Or use the office for intimate tete-a-tetes. Or be a social butterfly. But it can read.
Long shot, but does anyone have documentation how the IBM LEXX editor was extensible with REXX? (how extensions/macros were integrated)
The old SDLTRS emulator doesn't run on 64-bit Mac, but TRS80GP does:
http://48k.ca/trs80gp.html
#trs80 #retrocomputing
There's 28 pages of TRS-80 games on Moby Games:
https://www.mobygames.com/platform/trs-80/
My personal favorites were of course Telengard, Raaka-Tu & a bunch of other text adventures, and Sea Dragon (the Scramble clone).
#trs80 #retrocomputing
So I'm catching up on Retro Computing Roundtable, 277 is about 1977 and The Trinity. And everyone's like "there's no games or packaged software for the TRS-80 Model I or PET", and I'm like WTF alternate reality dudes.
First, fun stuff:
http://bigpants.ca/trs80/
https://gdcvault.com/play/1023267/Emptying-the-Trash-A-Last
Then the long-running (but "resting") Trash Talk podcast:
https://www.trs80trashtalk.com
And the TRS-8-Bit newsletter, which I didn't know had 3 2024 issues!
http://trs-80.org.uk/downloads.html
In which Taylor goes thru the Odyssey2 Computer Intro type-in. One of my favorites!
Tho almost entirely I got my documentation from 3rd party. De Re Atari might be the only official manual I used for more than intro/quick reference, but magazines, and the Compute! books, were way more useful.
We don't have official computer manuals anymore, but some of the 3rd party ones aren't awful. I like a lot of
https://pragprog.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lUiUQOvRHQ
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Taylor: Generation X Baby!