Thanks for the RAMories...

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Having quite a bit of spare time on my hands lately (I wonder why? :innocent: Thanks Cyc, for rescuing me from terminal housework! :wink:) I was shanghaied into a serious "sort'n'save" of my computer spares. Some 30 odd years worth of odds'n'sods that've accumulated from many, many repairs. Heartbreakingly, I've thrown out a LOT of ancient boxed PC SW (like... DOS 4.1 :oo:), monitors and "pop-top" computers, even some 1200/75 modems! :-

But some things I just cannot bear to dispose of, so I've made a "Memory Wall." Any-one spot anything familiar in these pix? :D

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And what good is any of this without something to run it on? Well... :-

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All well used, there's one set up to reflect every mod made to the A500 & A1k2. From a "virgin" A500 with 512k RAM and the ol' Fat Agnes thru to one fully chipped out, with 32MB RAM on daughter-boards and 8 PAR/SER ports. Plus I discovered that I still have an A1200 in as new condition (never been taken out of the box) and a couple of A2000s. One is still set up from my BBS days, with 3x SCSI cards & 28x500MB-3GB HDDs(!!), 6x CD-stacker and multiple SER ports, still all ready to spring to life at the flick of a switch!

I hate to admit it, but I did have some fun doing the cleaning. (SSSH! Don't tell SWMBO!) I found some bloody good memories in there... :p

[martrix]

Any-one spot anything familiar in these pix? :D

um.. you don't mind playing adventure games?:D

I don't see Morrowind there.:cool:

[tameriska]

ummmm. WOW.

Not really much else to say, other that if you still have some spare time, you are definately going to have fun revisiting those games :D

:2tsup:

[Honorary Bloke]

Amigas? You should have them bronzed. :D

[rrich]

LANtastic :puke:

BTW - I have a copy of the original (PDP-10) source code for the game "Adventure" but it's on magnetic tape.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

um.. you don't mind playing adventure games?:D

That too. :) But there's quite a few of the early 3D modelling and anim SW there. The great-grandaddy's of today's CGI. :wink:


Amigas? You should have them bronzed. :D

Bronzed? :oo: Do you have any idea how hard it is to read bronze letters on bronze keys? You'd think that after all these years I'd have learnt to touch-type... but no... I have become one of the world's fastest two-finger typists though...


LANtastic :puke:

Agreed. I also kept a copy of Win95 & Office95. It's a memory wall... who says that all the memories have to be good?


BTW - I have a copy of the original (PDP-10) source code for the game "Adventure" but it's on magnetic tape.

Good luck trying to load it! I've still got a few tapes lying around too, such exciting games as "Lunar Lander." :rolleyes:

[Gra]

Dude,

Where were the 8 inch disks..... I couple see every other size..

I think I still have a box of them somewhere, nothing to read them, but still have the disks, might make a place-mat set one day. 8 inch for plates, and the 5 1/4's for glasses.

[Groggy]

Superbase, ewww, better brown bag that one. Was that an old box of Clipper reversed on the RH shelf (more to my liking).

[joe greiner]

What? No Kaypro or Osborne? And where's all your punched cards?

Joe

[rrich]

Good luck trying to load it! I've still got a few tapes lying around too, such exciting games as "Lunar Lander." :rolleyes:

Ah! The only other computer game managed to keep my attention for more 10 minutes! Is your tape magnetic or paper?

Did you ever find the "cave" in the mountain? :2tsup:

Did you ever try to land on the roof of McDonalds? :no: