Yeti Spaghetti
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The also cribbed a LOT from the Xerox Star workstation.I played with a friend's amiga a bit in the late 80s. They were so cool at the time. The video abilities were way above everyone else. Apple acts like they invented the GUI but much of their early ideas were cribbed from Amiga. Then under funded Amiga tripped up and higher spending companies passed it.
Insert Will Smith meme here.
Insert Will Smith meme here.
I just want to say that I appreciate your efforts to go Will Smith without the slap. Well played.Parents just don't understand
He had a really good resume.
The Commodore 64 was my everything for several years in the late 80s/early 90s, before I got an Amiga 500 and thought I was the coolest thing around:
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I played with a friend's amiga a bit in the late 80s. They were so cool at the time. The video abilities were way above everyone else. Apple acts like they invented the GUI but much of their early ideas were cribbed from Amiga. Then under funded Amiga tripped up and higher spending companies passed it.
I had a C64 until finally I needed to go to college. The. I took one of my dad's hand me down PCs and cobbled together a working computer. C64 and Vic-20s were my childhood. One friend has an Amiga and those games were so pretty. But I was heading to PC land as the Amiga arrived.
I solved that itch with emulators. I played Phantasie on a C64 emulator and it was everything I remembered and more.I was a BBC child and did an evaluation about 1990 or so when I needed to upgrade my computer. In the end the PC won out as you could just get 386's at a more-or-less affordable price. I considered an Archimedes A400, a Mac plus, an Amiga (unfortunately the 68030 models hadn't come out yet) and a PC. Sadly, the PC was by far the most boring of the bunch but it was ultimately the right choice.
Sometimes I consider a nostalgic soiree into some sort of retro computer - but it comes down ultimately to 'can't be arsed.' I'm too tied to Microsoft to get away from Windows as I mostly work with SQL Server for a living. A SGI Octane might be fun, but it's ultimately not a terribly useful computer unless you have some legacy software or hardware that needs it.
At one point I bought my dad an Acorn RISC PC as a toy, and he got a fair bit of mileage out of tinkering with it. We consider it a success as it apparently perked him up quite a bit. He was quite down after the 2006 grass fires as most of his stuff got burnt. I was considering getting him an Octane and some video hardware to go with it, but he was getting very ill then and died about 4 years ago.
I solved that itch with emulators. I played Phantasie on a C64 emulator and it was everything I remembered and more.
By the time Amiga rolled around like you I did the calculations and tied my horse to Intel. My dad had a copy of Windows 2(which I believe came in a 286 and 386 flavor) which I think I ran on a 386sx(?). It was horribly slow. Back to DOS until I got a 486 or a pentium knock off. This was sort of the high point for me of interest in picking PC components.
Same trajectory here. The last PC I built that I was excited about was a small form factor PC. It was that fun combo of speed and size and random bits I'd researched to get the most for the least out of. After that I was more into rock mounted systems. I'd acquired a floor to ceiling rack for my home(stored in the bedroom/office of my small apartment).It was worth while as I could run Pagemaker, Corel Draw and AutoCAD on it and I pimped it out with 4MB of RAM and then eventually a 300GB ESDI disk salvaged on an old Sun workstation. Then I got a Mac IIci, which turned out to be a dead end, and got hold of a higher spec motherboard with a 20MhZ CPU and 8MB of RAM, plus a Tseng Labs graphics card.
Then, around 1995 I got a 17" monitor at an auction and much faster PC with a 100MHz 486 CPU. That machine was actually fairly quick. It would run Pagemaker 5, Corel Draw 5, Photoshop 2.5, AutoCAD 12 and a bunch of other software very nicely. It was actually quite a fast machine, very much the last hurrah of 16 bit windows, and had enough disk space to dual boot Linux.
Building a PC was interesting between about 1985-2000. I had some fun making a quiet, small-footprint PC when I first came to the UK, but since then I've largely bought either secondhand HP workstations or Thinkpads and then just pimping them to spec. Generally one doesn't actually need cutting edge CPU speed, and by and large CPU speed hasn't been a big deal since the Athlon first came out.
Funnily enough I don't really miss any games from the 8-bit era, although I spent hours playing them. I do have fond memories of the '90s with Doom, Descent, Warcraft, Civ, Heretic and various others.
Same trajectory here. The last PC I built that I was excited about was a small form factor PC. It was that fun combo of speed and size and random bits I'd researched to get the most for the least out of. After that I was more into rock mounted systems. I'd acquired a floor to ceiling rack for my home(stored in the bedroom/office of my small apartment).
I'm not sure I've ever actually just bought a PC premade. Only laptops. Even as I've gotten older and lost the thrill of building I still get annoyed at the price to buy the components I tend to want. I've usually been able to scavenge enough from the existing system that I'd have to overpay for what I need in a new system.
Some of it is I also don't really want to get so far behind learning about it that it becomes too hard to catch up. Atrophy is no fun.
Allow me to translate the above Attic Greek. I started off flahderiha, but then i added some whatsits and my thingums went malarky. Then, I bought some canoodles and and a half loaf of that other thing and my stuff was much stuffier.
Remember when you knew how to whistle and stop a fax machine handshake?
I get strangely nostalgiac for old candies that aren't made anymore. Remember Bonkers. I'm sure they aren't actually as good as I remember them being as a kid... but man I remember them being great.
Let me go check moms freezer...Yeah, I assume Jello pudding pops couldn't be as great as I remember, but boy I wish I could find out.
Surgery awesomeness!?!?Let me go check moms freezer...
I remember Koogle peanut butter being surgery awesomeness. Wonder if it still would be.
No. They don't have a statute of limitations on that crap.Surgery awesomeness!?!?
Is there a serial killer childhood you want to confess?
Sugar in peanut butter. Heresy of the worst kind!Let me go check moms freezer...
I remember Koogle peanut butter being surgery awesomeness. Wonder if it still would be.
I think so. I'm pretty sure it was the sort of thing no parent would feed a child now but was ultra cool in the late 70s early 80s.Sugar in peanut butter. Heresy of the worst kind!
(Seriously. Sugar?)
My bad it was either Chocolate, Cinnamon or Banana flavored peanut butter.Sugar in peanut butter. Heresy of the worst kind!
(Seriously. Sugar?)
He was also an orderly in Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors. Billed as Larry Fishburne.
Sugar is in most American peanut butter. Pretty much any peanut butter that you don't have to stir before using.Sugar in peanut butter. Heresy of the worst kind!
(Seriously. Sugar?)
Sugar in peanut butter. Heresy of the worst kind!
(Seriously. Sugar?)
Sugar is in most American peanut butter. Pretty much any peanut butter that you don't have to stir before using.