- Do you miss anything from doing the show?
- I find myself craving an original PC from time to time.
Yeah, big iron! I am interested but lack the space, so I watch others with great interest.
I did get really into Sgi machines, but those are a newer breed. They do have that big iron feel. At one point I had quite a set, Origin server, Indy machines, an O2... purged it all in the early 10's and went small, embedded after that.
- Same. It is nice here
- My first was also an Atari. Was a 400, and the first thing I did was get it a real keyboard.
Click, clickety, click, click...
The SIO system was really nice for the time.
- Hello from Oregon! Portland area.
I need to contribute more links...
- Thanks! You appear to be doing great and I really appreciate your work.
Should you ever need help, I am open to that, though I can't think of a thing right now and that probably means you got this.
Thanks again. Much appreciated!
- I came from the 80's era. Apple 2 and Atari machines.
Had Apples in school, learned a ton, got one for home and have been using both ever since.
Today, I run an Apple 2 Platinum with a FastChip that can run Applesoft basic at 16 Mhz! That is fun. Have FujiNET devices on both Apple and my Atari 800XL.
I program in assembly for a lot of chips and enjoy hacking around on retro gear of all kinds. Also CRT displays are great. Mine still work and I hope that continues.
I really want a Tek vector storage computer some day. These are beautiful and I worked on one doing sheet metal back in the day.
And I want a CRT terminal I can augment into a full computer just for fun. (Without removing its original capability.)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QMEgysuCwZA&pp=ygUJdGVrIDQ...
What do you have, what do you want?
What makes you feel like playing?
- Yes. It is a good program. Seconded easily.
- Yes! I often draw from experiences during that time.
SGI made absolutely fantastic workstations, for example.
I was 3D gaming with full video and audio chatter in the mid to late 90's, viewing models in stereo, running powerful applications remotely over X, with the 3D GLX extensions.
Man so many good ideas in the Indigo Magic Desktop!
Package management that included the ability to pause on events such as disk full so a guy could remove other software, or add disk, whatever.
8 bit machines have relevance in embedded spaces.
And it is fun to wonder what would have happened had the Amiga gained traction.
It really was a beautiful time filled with all sorts of great tech people can draw inspiration from today.
- What a class act! It was a pleasure to read Ken giving that native art full respect. I think it is cool, and obviously Ken did too.
I think about the bridge in culture... from the old world ways and how many of those who maintain them carry it all forward through today. Nice. Then comes the new world. A cpu and all we have seen from these little devices that are hard sometimes to imagine living without.
Clearly a lot of us did. Myself included.
In this sense, we are the last, but for some people living their old world culture today. They hold things we may forget or that might be lost when all of us last ones finally tip over for our final time.
Good on them. We are very likely to find we need or will seriously benefit from their ways.
And as I journey though this life we are all gifted, I realize those things from before are important, as important as the new tech is. I bet many of us here lived before we were all communicating on this network. Remember how we knew one another, kept state to know who is likely to be where, with whom, doing stuff? And reference materials! Databooks, and the like. How about how important other people could be? A quick chat could save a week!
Here is one thought from that time I dearly wish I had photographed: The wall phone, standard dial, bell type. On that wall was a handwritten directory. I started it as a kid.
Mom complained, until she needed the number for my friends house. Dad was on board when he found the pizza place, diner and local market numbers right there with the phone!
When I left the house to go at it on my own, I started another one briefly, but apartment living plus the phone not being mounted on the wall saw the thought distilled down to a book that was no where near as good, though it did work. The bonus is we have that book, though I would be surprised if any number still worked. Well, my Moms landline still does. That means the local market still existing probably does too. Who knew?
The last I looked at the one I started was amazing! Our lives organized visually by need: emergency, that poison control sticker with police, EMS, other numbers surrounding it. Food was grouped in a similar way, as were friends and family, some with little stars or hearts nearby. I never did a count, but somewhere south of 100 numbers would not be out of line.
And what do we do today? We keep those numbers right by the phone for max usability! Interesting isn't it? I sure think so and thanks for entertaining my ramble here.
That rug speaks to some of that and those thoughts are why I think the rug is cool.
- More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q6yPcUwatg
I miss hanging out with Kate Russell, she's an absolute darling. The show was ridiculous fun to do, only got paid 15 quid an episode, but the studio folks would treat you like a king from the moment you arrived.
Thanks for linking it. Very fun watching.