Anyway,m what is a TS 1000?
On 03-02-19 11:10, Kurt Weiske wrote to GREG GOODWIN <=-
Re: TS 1000
By: GREG GOODWIN to All on Sat Mar 02 2019 11:06 am
Anyway,m what is a TS 1000?
Timex/Sinclair 1000.
It was a computer that ran BASIC, hooked into a TV, and cost $99. I had one with the whopping 16 kilobyte expansion pack.
Timex/Sinclair 1000.
It was a computer that ran BASIC, hooked into a TV, and cost $99. I
had one with the whopping 16 kilobyte expansion pack.
GREG GOODWIN wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
16 K ? Wow, what did you do with all thaat ram?
16 K ? Wow, what did you do with all thaat ram?
*Fell out of chair laughing!!*
Those were some GREAT days!
GREG GOODWIN wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
I love what you said about programming on 16k. Not to pull out the
beards and false teeth but my Dad's first computer was the Sol Terminal
20 which had... 2... K of ram. :D
16K is 16 times the ram if you had 1K of ram. MADNESS!!!
GREG GOODWIN spoke thus to Charles Stephenson <=-
16K is 16 times the ram if you had 1K of ram. MADNESS!!!
16K is 16 times the ram if you had 1K of ram. MADNESS!!!
16K is 16 times the ram if you had 1K of ram. MADNESS!!!
especially with the cost of ram back then. :)
Charles Stephenson spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-
especially with the cost of ram back then. :)
RIGHT! I just wrote a post saying the same thing! first
Computer/Desktop I actually BOUGHT was a Tandy 1000 SL, I was in High
felt like I hit the lottory! I went to his house to pick it up, and I
saw the NEW PC he just bought, If I remember, he paid a little over
3000 for it! Wish I could remember the name, but it wasn't Tandy and it was all black and SOOO pretty! He let me play around with it for a bit, Man...I wanted to move in, and I wanted him to adopt me!! <G> It was
the first time I saw Windows in action!
When I finally left (It was over hr later!) I got to setting up my new
PC, and my 'new' PC was faster than my dad's, but slower than the guy I bought it from, That's when I got into upgrading/overclocking!
...man... PC'ing back then was so great....
Computer/Desktop I actually BOUGHT was a Tandy 1000 SL, I was in High
Hmmm, started out with a mighty MC10 from Radio Shak, worked my way up to a Color computer 1 and then finally 3. Ran a unix clone OS on that and even had a dialup board on that one. Great fun those days... multi user multi tasking environment on an 8 bit machine. :)
the first time I saw Windows in action!
heheheh, was pretty amazing way back in the day when you didn't have to use the command prompt for everything.
doing no plug and play with those puters. :)
No argument there.. did your own programming too?
Charles Stephenson spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-
Right! I did like using the command prompt, made computing a little
more personal! When I saw Linux for the first time, it made it easier
to migrate to it YEARS ago, just because of the command prompt! Before that I fell in love with OS/2!
Yeah, and when 'plug n play' did come around, it was a *ITCH in OS/2!:\
I dilly dallied in BASIC/QB, when I got into BBSing, I got into seeing
how big and smart I could make my batch file! hehe....
The good ole days!
On 05-28-19 20:33, Charles Stephenson wrote to Gaylen Hintz <=-
Right! I did like using the command prompt, made computing a little
more personal! When I saw Linux for the first time, it made it easier
to migrate to it YEARS ago, just because of the command prompt! Before that I fell in love with OS/2!
Gaylen Hintz wrote to Charles Stephenson <=-
Charles Stephenson spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-
especially with the cost of ram back then. :)
RIGHT! I just wrote a post saying the same thing! first
Computer/Desktop I actually BOUGHT was a Tandy 1000 SL, I was in High
Hmmm, started out with a mighty MC10 from Radio Shak, worked my way up
to a Color computer 1 and then finally 3. Ran a unix clone OS on that
and even had a dialup board on that one. Great fun those days...
multi user multi tasking environment on an 8 bit machine. :)
Charles Stephenson wrote to Gaylen Hintz <=-
MC10?? My old age is setting in! :( I can't remember what those were...
Dave Drum spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-
I built my first confuser from a sandwich baggie of parts and
mimeographed instructions that were sold as a "kit" in the back pages
of Mechanix Illustrated magazine. There was no storage and input was
via dip switches.
First "store bought" item was a TRaSh-80 Model 1 (level 2 dos) with the 16K memory expansion already installed. At the time if one owned stock
BYTE, Creative Computing and .info. And logging on to my first local
BBS (home brewed on a Burroughs Mini-Frame) a multi-line affair which
would get me connected to (gasp) usenet. And trying to view 80 column
porn on a 40 column screen. Bv)=
Which prompted my next computer purchase - a PET 8032 ... still a monochrome, cassette storage machine with a lordly 32K of ram and an
80 column display. It also had a real ieee printer port and supported
a disc drive (only $395).
Ahhhhh .... the best thing about the good old days is that they're in
the rear view mirror.
It was a minature version of the TRS-80 Color Computer.
were...
It was a Radio Shak computer rughly about the size of a timex sinclair computer with a chicklet keyboard and did run color basic programs. Cassette based load and save for your programs but was a great little puter. :)
DDir.exe was the name but having upped to windows 10 64 bit mode.... don't work no more. :(
I +still_ use the command prompt for a lot of things. Sometimes, it's simply the best tool for the job. :)
Gaylen Hintz wrote to Dave Drum <=-
BBS (home brewed on a Burroughs Mini-Frame) a multi-line affair which would get me connected to (gasp) usenet. And trying to view 80 column
porn on a 40 column screen. Bv)=
hehehehehe, that must have been quite a trick. <g>
Which prompted my next computer purchase - a PET 8032 ... still a monochrome, cassette storage machine with a lordly 32K of ram and an
80 column display. It also had a real ieee printer port and supported
a disc drive (only $395).
wow, that was a bargain back in those days. :)
Ahhhhh .... the best thing about the good old days is that they're in
the rear view mirror.
ah come on now, just think how much fun you had learning all this
stuff and it carries on to today. Imagine growing up and getting
into computing with only the point and click interface. :)
On 05-29-19 23:33, Charles Stephenson wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
That was why I LOVE Linux. I've been using it for over 15 years and I'm still learning stuff that it can do! I haven't had a need to use
Windows in quite awhile, thank the heavens! :)
Charles Stephenson spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-
It was a Radio Shak computer roughly about the size of a timex sinclair computer with a chicklet keyboard and did run color basic programs.
Ahh yeah I remember those! My father had one! I thought those were so cool. Didn't it have a built-in modem too?
Yeah, there were alot of cool command line functions I miss. I loved
reading the monthy PC Mag (there was a DOS mag too we got montly)
showing 'new' useful commands. Giving you stuff to your config.sys and autexec.bat was awesome!
Dave Drum spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-
wow, that was a bargain back in those days. :)
Actually it was about standard (in my area). For $100 more you could
get a dual floppy drive and have both a:/ and b:/ drives. And you had a choice of 8" or 5.25" drives. Thannk providence I didn't go with the 8" guys. They were fading fast, even thsn.
ah come on now, just think how much fun you had learning all this
stuff and it carries on to today. Imagine growing up and getting
into computing with only the point and click interface. :)
Or thinking you *HAVE* tobe tethered to your $mart-a$$ phone. Bv(=
Helping my brother clean out a basement storage space the other day I
came across a Coleco Adam I had bought his daughters in an attempt to
wean them away from Q*Bert and Donkey Kong to more productive pursuits.
Sean Dennis spoke thus to Charles Stephenson <=-
Charles Stephenson wrote to Gaylen Hintz <=-
MC10?? My old age is setting in! :( I can't remember what those were...
It was a minature version of the TRS-80 Color Computer.
Gaylen Hintz wrote to Dave Drum <=-
wow, that was a bargain back in those days. :)
Actually it was about standard (in my area). For $100 more you could
get a dual floppy drive and have both a:/ and b:/ drives. And you had a choice of 8" or 5.25" drives. Thannk providence I didn't go with the 8" guys. They were fading fast, even then.
hehehehe, yep... my color computer took the 5 1/5 inch floppies <thank goodness>
though single sided double density. Added the os/9 operating system, compiled device
drivers for the 3 1/2 floppies and I was in hog heaven.
ah come on now, just think how much fun you had learning all this
stuff and it carries on to today. Imagine growing up and getting
into computing with only the point and click interface. :)
Or thinking you *HAVE* to be tethered to your $mart-a$$ phone. Bv(=
bwahahahahah yeah... that too. :)
Helping my brother clean out a basement storage space the other day I
came across a Coleco Adam I had bought his daughters in an attempt to
wean them away from Q*Bert and Donkey Kong to more productive pursuits.
hehehehe, with the Ziglog Z80 chip? Initial price back in 1983 at
$600 was quite an investment wasn't it. :)
Dave Drum spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-
hehehehe, yep... my color computer took the 5 1/5 inch floppies <thank goodness>
though single sided double density. Added the os/9 operating system, compiled device
drivers for the 3 1/2 floppies and I was in hog heaven.
I didn't get into 3.5" floppies until I got my Amiga. I just got one of those notcher deals and made "flippies" out of my 5.25" floppies.
Now the only 3.5" floppy I have left is the promo Amiga calculator that Commode Door put out back when I owned my computer store. They sold
$600 was quite an investment wasn't it. :)
Didn't pay near that. I am not an "early adopter" and when the Adam
didn't "fly off the shelves" dealers - most of whom were toy/game
stores who didn't understand computers - cut prices dramatically to
make room for game consoles. Bv)=
16K is 16 times the ram if you had 1K of ram. MADNESS!!!
LMAO! GREAT point Sherlock! ;)
16K is 16 times the ram if you had 1K of ram. MADNESS!!!
especially with the cost of ram back then. :)
Live long and prosper!
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16K is 16 times the ram if you had 1K of ram. MADNESS!!!
hahaha!!! You made me spit out my drink from laughing!!
16k back then... cost like a kidney!!
No, that particular model didn't nor did any of the color computer from radio shak. It wasn't until I had a coco3 with what was called a multipak interface was an rs32 port available to hook into a Hayes combatable modem.
autexec.bat was awesome!
Ah yes, the batch programming.. you really could automate a bunch of stuff with those batch scripts. Of course , one little glitch in the syntax and you could mess a bunch of stuff up as well. :)
still learning stuff that it can do! I haven't had a need to use
Windows in quite awhile, thank the heavens! :)
You're not going to get any argument from me. I like that the command
line is so accessible and powerful in Linux. That's one part of the OS I make heavy use of, especially for scripting automated tasks.
On 06-02-19 19:26, Charles Stephenson wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
On May 31st 12:52 am Tony Langdon said...
still learning stuff that it can do! I haven't had a need to use
Windows in quite awhile, thank the heavens! :)
I haven't either! I used windows when I wanted to cast Comcast/Spectrum (within Google Chrome) to my Chromcast. Spectrum Cable doesn't like ANYthing to do with linux. I've made a few posts about it to them.
Kinda messed up.
You're not going to get any argument from me. I like that the command line is so accessible and powerful in Linux. That's one part of the OS I make heavy use of, especially for scripting automated tasks.
It's even better because it's always evolving...
GREG GOODWIN spoke thus to GAYLEN HINTZ <=-
Live long and prosper!
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Oh that is pretty. Enterprise D design really grew on me. :)
Charles Stephenson spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-
My Dad kept up with all the 'new' stuff that came out due to his business/employment. I got to look and play with a few, albiet for a short time, but that groomed me to my love of Tech!
Ah yes, the batch programming.. you really could automate a bunch of stuff with those batch scripts. Of course , one little glitch in the syntax and you could mess a bunch of stuff up as well. :)
Right! a 'cough' while typing into a batch file could cause ALOT of
issues in a large batch! Been there done that
LMAO! GREAT point Sherlock! ;) Indeed my dear Watson!! The Game is a foot... and even better, can now load where we did not have the ram before....16K is 16 times the ram if you had 1K of ram. MADNESS!!! ->
laughing!! -> 16k back then... cost like a kidney!! Hahaha... you laughing got me laughing. Haven't enjoyed a good BBS chat like this in a long time.-> GG> -> hahaha!!! You made me spit out my drink from
short time, but that groomed me to my love of Tech!
Oh I"m sure, I know there were some real advancements for the times , probably primitive compared to the stuff these days but back then... the wow factor was something else. :) Computer and processor speeds doubled every other year :)
I think that was misquoted. :) I still do use dome Windows, alongside Linux. )
That can be good or bad, sometimes they tool around with things for no good reason. :)
On 06-14-19 17:18, Charles Stephenson wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
On Jun 4th 5:23 pm Tony Langdon said...
I think that was misquoted. :) I still do use dome Windows, alongside Linux. )
Ewww... you lost some cool points there bro! :D
On Jun 4th 5:23 pm Tony Langdon said...
That can be good or bad, sometimes they tool around with things for no good reason. :)
Yeah true, lol... too much tooling, Sounds like some of us Sysops!
Yeah, and we had Intel, AMD, Motorola making CPU's! (Can't remember,
was there fourth? Can't remember) There was faster CPU upgrades than
hard drive sizes for a short time! That was a fun era!
Ewww... you lost some cool points there bro! :D
And what you gonna do about it? *prod* *SLAP* *sprints away* :P
Yeah true, lol... too much tooling, Sounds like some of us Sysops!
Hahaha, but we don't poist our creations on thousands or millions of users, just those fool^H^H^H^Hgame^H^H^H^Hkeen enough to log into our BBSs. :D
On 06-14-19 23:32, Charles Stephenson wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
Ewww... you lost some cool points there bro! :D
And what you gonna do about it? *prod* *SLAP* *sprints away* :P
Damnit! That just GAINED you those cool points back!...curses! :D
Yeah true, lol... too much tooling, Sounds like some of us Sysops!
Hahaha, but we don't poist our creations on thousands or millions of users, just those fool^H^H^H^Hgame^H^H^H^Hkeen enough to log into our BBSs. :D
lol! although it would be nice to have Thousands calling our BBSes
again! Regards,
Oh that is pretty. Enterprise D design really grew on me. :)
I tend to agree.. she was a pretty ship and that's for sure. Did you by an
chance happen to catch the Strar Trek Discovery show?
Charles Stephenson spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-
wow factor was something else. :) Computer and processor speeds doubled every other year :)
Yeah, and we had Intel, AMD, Motorola making CPU's! (Can't remember,
was there fourth? Can't remember) There was faster CPU upgrades than
hard drive sizes for a short time! That was a fun era!
Zilog, Olivetti and NEC were three more...
we changed the CPU chip (8mhz 8086) out in one machine (AT&T 6300 IIRC) for a NEC one (NEC V30) and the processing capability increased (2x?) for the same clock speed... i think we also added a math coprocessor (8087) as well as eventually upgrading the BIOS... too bad it wasn't Y1992 compliant... something about ""cheating"" with the clock chip and not using enough bits to represent the year so 1992 was the highest year it could count to...
GREG GOODWIN spoke thus to GAYLEN HINTZ <=-
I was really put off by 1) the cost to watch the show 2) the changes to the Klingons. But I've been told by episode 5 it gets better. So...
I guess I'll have to watch it.
You like it?
I've been having a blast with my 1st and still favorite Flight Sim - Battle
Britain! I was in HS when I first played it, and now that I play it again, I
remember imagining being in that plan and actually dogfighting!
If you saw the kinda hair I had back in those day's you'd CONTINUE tolaugh!
I guess I have to admit I do. It's a little different from previous versio
of Star Trek and at time I think a little weird but yes, I do like it and am
anxiously awaiting the start of season 3 :)
If you saw the kinda hair I had back in those day's you'd CONTINUE tolaugh! Oh really? Do tell. For a brief time I tried to go with the hair ... well I don't know what I was trying to do. It was mostly short and I tried to have my hair up in the front. Lots of Final Net. Yeh, was a dork then. Not much different now, but at least I am not a bean pole and can at least act not so awkward.
I've been having a blast with my 1st and still favorite Flight Sim -Battle -> Britain! I was in HS when I first played it, and now that I play it again, I -> remember imagining being in that plan and actually dogfighting! That is so cool!! Was that played on the TS 1000? For me I loved that game, might still have it, and had the Atari ST version. When I played it on the TT030 the game really smoothed out and zipped along great. Played that game for hours.
That is so cool!! Was that played on the TS 1000? For me I loved
that game, might still have it, and had the Atari ST version. When I played it on the TT030 the game really smoothed out and zipped along great. Played that game for hours.
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