16 Dec
2010
16 Dec
'10
9:47 p.m.
On December 15, 2010 11:49:03 pm gene heskett wrote:
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:44:41 pm Ralf
Mardorf did opine:
1802 CPU fan here too. Mine was RCA COSMAC VIP 1802.
Added 3 channel sound (Famous G.I. AY3- chip) and
colour graphics with T.I. 9918 chip, after read Circuit Cellar article on it.
Oh what fun...
Tim.
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 17:42 -0500, gene heskett
wrote:
Never did that. My first modem was a 120 baud device, but it was wired.
Hooked up to the precursor to the coco3 I'm running right now, in the
basement, logged into it over a serial port using minicom on this linux
box.
history being written by the winners, so the
whole thing may have
been white washed to a high polish by now.
People who put their telephone handset into a thingy to be able to do
data telecommunication, before there was the Internet for public, tend
to be more sceptic/paranoid than youngsters ;). The reason for this is,
that at that time, we might be hackers our self. I guess we can't
compare the easy hacking that was possible at C64 times (or Amiga ;),
with today data protection :D.
The amiga is actually fairly late model here folks, I started with a quest
super elf I built from a kit. Circa '77.