From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20] helo=mail.gmx.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Abp1-0006hd-00 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 15:30:55 -0400 Received: (qmail 31653 invoked by uid 0); 22 May 2002 19:30:18 -0000 Received: from dhcp250-10-151-24.nt01-c5.cpe.charter-ne.com (HELO computer) (24.151.10.250) by mail.gmx.net (mp011-rz3) with SMTP; 22 May 2002 19:30:18 -0000 Message-ID: <00a201c201c7$053d0540$fa0a9718@nt.charterne.com> From: "Alex Snow" To: References: Subject: Re: OLD DAYS Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 15:23:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: "Alex Snow" List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: That was even before monitors. Everyone just used color TVs because they were cheaper. Didn't they plug into a RF modulator card? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Oliver" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:39 AM Subject: Re: OLD DAYS > believe it or not, my first computer was a comodore 64 with no speech. > I could see well enough at the time to be able to read the print off of my > tv screen. I even had some cool games for it that weren't released to the > publick until a few months after I had them. > I'm still amazed that you could do so much with a 1 mhz processor and the > entire os was in memory. > I mean sure you had to load games off of a tape, and I mean audio cassett, > but it was for it's time very fast. especially when you put things like > dolphin dos or cocroach on it. > oh how I miss my c 64 hahaha. > > > -- > Shaun Oliver > > Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the > > > only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. > > > -- Wernher von Braun. > > > email: shaun_oliver@optusnet.com.au > > > icq:76958435 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >