I remember both orange on black and green on black. I was just saying how astounded I was at the first 16 color computers.
Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the --
Jayne ,'Serenity'
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Sean K - May 22, 2008 2:39:37 pm PDT #6339 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
omnis_audis - May 22, 2008 2:40:15 pm PDT #6340 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I almost bought it. Soooo tempting. Damn you poverty!! 32 GIG! Holy cow!
Jessica - May 22, 2008 2:50:16 pm PDT #6341 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We were evicted from our hole in the ground, and had to go live in a lake...
amych - May 22, 2008 3:10:25 pm PDT #6342 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Oh, yeah? How much RAM did your lake have?
Matt H - May 22, 2008 3:42:44 pm PDT #6343 of 25501
Musikalicen Opfer
Jumping in to bid for geek-trashiest: How about a 1981 DEC Rainbow with both Z80 and 8086 chip, and BOTH C/PM and MS-DOS 1.0....still operational, with all the papers I wrote as an undergraduate on floppies that STILL WORK.
(yes, I actually still have this. Don't know why.
amych - May 22, 2008 3:45:53 pm PDT #6344 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
You have the machine because that's fucking cool. You have the undergrad papers because... well, that's between you and your doG.
Matt H - May 22, 2008 3:53:27 pm PDT #6345 of 25501
Musikalicen Opfer
It's sort of cool. The monitor (which is nothing but a relogoed VT220T) needs a pair of filter caps for the power supply, as it's got some screen roll, but nothing bad, especially.
And re floppies: occasionally re-reading a college paper is a humbling experience. The papers are grammatically and syntactically correct, but gah it took a long time to express something simple.
Ginger - May 22, 2008 4:55:08 pm PDT #6346 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Hey, I had a DEC Rainbow.
t High fives Matt
beth b - May 22, 2008 7:04:48 pm PDT #6347 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
any one need a Dec Rainbow?
beth b - May 22, 2008 7:14:18 pm PDT #6348 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!