Yeah, the Tandy CoCo should be in there as well!
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NoiseDesign - Dec 16, 2004 5:32:06 am PST #575 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
tommyrot - Dec 16, 2004 5:38:52 am PST #576 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ah, the joys of going to a mall, walking to Radio Shack, finding a Tandy CoCo and typing:
10 i=i+1
20 print i
30 goto 10
run
and walking away.
OK, I forget - do you need to dimension i in that code?
eta: you could add a semicolon at the end of line 20 if you want it to scroll neatly, one number to a line.
NoiseDesign - Dec 16, 2004 5:43:07 am PST #577 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I used to do that to Apple II's, only I'd add a CNTRL-G in there so that it would beep with each line.
Yes. Even then I was evil.
Jon B. - Dec 16, 2004 5:45:14 am PST #578 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Oh you rapscallions!
tommyrot - Dec 16, 2004 5:45:18 am PST #579 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I would also program C-64s to just sit there unti someone pressed a key, then the screen would start flashing rapidly different colors and a weird siren sound would eminate....
DXMachina - Dec 16, 2004 5:48:36 am PST #580 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
This is why we can never have nice things.
tommyrot - Dec 16, 2004 5:53:44 am PST #581 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And in my high-school computer class, I programmed one of our Commodore computers to display the exact same message that'd be displayed when the computer was first started up (like, the amount of free memory, something about BASIC, etc.) Then when someone started pressing keys... weird things would happen.
And I programmed one to display the time and outside temperature. There was a system variable ti$ that always had the time; I had a few folks convinced that there was a te$ that always had the outside temperature.
Connie Neil - Dec 16, 2004 5:54:46 am PST #582 of 10003
brillig
No Franklin consoles, either. Hubby still has his old Franklin because it's the only thing that plays what used to be his favorite Star Fleet game. Now, of course, he plays networked Warcraft and stuff. I suppose I'll have to bury him with the Franklin and the cartridge, just so he has his favorite toys with him. That and a sword.
NoiseDesign - Dec 16, 2004 5:57:47 am PST #583 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I still have my Colecovision.
I also have a CP/M machine down in my parent's garage that is in a plywood case and features an 8" floppy. I'm pretty sure I've got wordstar for it.
tommyrot - Dec 16, 2004 6:02:12 am PST #584 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Some day I should put pictures of my vintage laptop collection on-line.
I have the first Tandy laptop, the next generation Tandy laptop (with the screen that flips up like a modern laptop), the first Epson laptop (with built-in printer and cassette drive), and the first Apple laptop. Plus the first and second Tandy "pocket computers."
I'm wondering - what was the first Intel 8086 or 8088-based laptop? I need one of those....