Two Stop Bits | seclorum's comments

seclorum 161 days ago | parent | on: ST Book, the Atari ST notebook
A lovely little machine, it would've been nice to see how things had proceeded, had this been successful enough to warrant a few more revisions. Certainly, it had relevance to the music-making computer users of the period. I wonder if its MIDI was ever used for productive purposes ..
seclorum 161 days ago | parent | on: Mega Atari ST Haul
What a trove of delightful stuff .. especially those Heavy Metal magazines, but also .. all the floppies! Lots of spelunking to be doing, I hope it happens ..
seclorum 210 days ago | parent | on: Getting a 1980s computer to play samples
"Go for it!" - Crazy Climber arcade cabinet, 1982.
seclorum 455 days ago | parent | on: Early Hackers Used Whistles From Cap’n Crunch Cere...
You could also use a pocket dialer, from Radio Shack, and if you got the right version, you could set a jumper and get the 2600hz free-call tones pretty nicely .. they changed the design to make the jumper inaccessible in later versions ..
seclorum 458 days ago | parent | on: Vintage Computing
I can still smell my old highschools' Vector 3 .. and that boot logo still sends me into conniptions over the fact that I would 'never' be able to do bitmap graphics on the thing, on the sly, while Professor Whathisname was blathering on about GOSUB or whatever ..