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On 4 Mar 2018 09:52:08 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

>On 2018-03-03, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>
>> I love memories of
>> computers I used in the early 1980s, like the Commodore 64 and later the
>> Amiga 500 around 1987.
>
>I suspect if you had to use them now, your experiences would be very much
>at odds with those memories.

I fired my Amiga A3000 just a few years about, around the year 2000,
and it worked as I remembered it. A 52 meg and a 105 meg SCSI hdds.

On 4 Mar 2018 09:52:08 GMT, Huge wrote:
>
> On 2018-03-03, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>
>> I love memories of
>> computers I used in the early 1980s, like the Commodore 64 and later the
>> Amiga 500 around 1987.
>
> I suspect if you had to use them now, your experiences would be very much
> at odds with those memories.

I still "use" them today ever so often. Though I not have any vintage
hardware I love it - wouldn't read here otherwise. Thanks to emulators I
can run any kind of system. I recently ran a Commodore 64 in an emulator
to re-play the game Elite and others video games, checked out one of
Microsoft's first spread sheets (Multiplan) on the C64...

I also use emulators to run iconic systems and ancient software on
them. For example I wanted to know how it feels to run WordStar on an
Osborne 1, which I also documented on Youtube along with the spread sheet
SuperCalc and others. I can post the links here if anyone is interested.

Sure it feels odd today, crude as they are after today's standards. But
back in the day I was too young to have the chance to experience these
things like for myself.
-- 
Andreas
MAME emulator
https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-mame-emulator.html

On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 15:58:41 -0500, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> On 4 Mar 2018 11:01:36 GMT, Huge wrote:
>>
>> I spent a couple of years, several decades ago, programming MUMPS (on a
>> PDP11/40 IIRC). I loved it. At the time, my favourite programming
>> language (not that I knew many) and the first high level language
>> (well,
>> kinda) that I'd ever come across that had facilities built-in to write
>> self modifying code.
> 
> That was because it lacked a stack?
> 
> I just learned about using self modifying codes to do jumps to
> subroutines on languages (or CPUs) not supporting stacks
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR8V0lq029c>.
> 
> It is called Wheeler Jump there.

Oh yes. I had dinner with him on more than one occasion (formal Cambridge 
dinner). Nice man.



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I use to love the old Byte magazines.  Like others have said, I'd read it from cover to cover and couldn't wait the new issue.  It's a shame when it started the death spiral.  I even still have all my copies from when I first started subscribing.  Anyone remember their failed attempt to create their own version of compuserve/aol?

David

On 2018-03-07, David Jones <djon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I use to love the old Byte magazines.  Like others have said,
> I'd read it from cover to cover and couldn't wait the new issue.
> It's a shame when it started the death spiral.  I even still have
> all my copies from when I first started subscribing.

I've kept some copies from the good old days, but with only a couple
of exceptions, everything from their Wintel phase went into the
recycle bin.

> Anyone remember their failed attempt to create their own version
> of compuserve/aol?

Not me.  I went from local BBSes to Usenet, with the help of
a local BBS that made several newsgroups (including this one)
look like more of its local groups.

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On 3/7/2018 10:25 AM, David Jones wrote:
> I use to love the old Byte magazines.  Like others have said, I'd read it from cover to cover and couldn't wait the new issue.  It's a shame when it started the death spiral.  I even still have all my copies from when I first started subscribing.  Anyone remember their failed attempt to create their own version of compuserve/aol?
> 
I didn't have any delusions that the 2-line BBS I operated would 
compete with CIS, but it did carry discussion groups like this, both 
those native to Fidonet (a store-and-forward BBS network via telephone 
lines) and a few newsgroups that I gated in via UUCP.

Then, of course, the WWW appeared, and nobody wanted BBS anymore.