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iamai20045y5.25 inch floppy disks but actual use and remaining stash is more 3.5 inch disks already.
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That's really not old at all...
When I saw the heading, I thought this was going to be a picture of a punchcard or similar. -
SomeNone7115yCan't beat anyone who worked with punchcards (they were long out of fashion when I started being interested in computers), but as to the pictured PS/2 ports, I remember building several PCs before these ports were colour-coded. I also remember:
* Mini-DIN ports for AT keyboards
* DIN ports for XT keyboards
* Serial mice (9-pin sub-D connector)
* Printers with Centronics port
* 9-pin dot matrix printers
* Competition Pro joysticks (for C=64 and Amiga, allegedly also for Atari ST)
* XTs with 4.77 MHz CPU, two 5.25" floppy drives, and amber monochrome Hercules graphics
* The above mentioned XTs also had about 20 F-keys on their keyboards
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Please. I still have a miniCD (YEAH that thing of 240mb, half radius of normal CD) with my pascal code.
That shit is bootable with msdos (from cd!)
I have borlan bascal and everything installed on it
AND it still fucking works on my core i7 to this day (I check for fun every 3-5 months) -
@magicMirror Well the thing pictured is a VIC-20, but indeed, I started my development career on a C64.
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SomeNone7115y@magicMirror Not a C=64 but a previous model, the VIC-20, or in Germany, VC-20 (because VIC could be misinterpreted as a German swear word).
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C0D4669025yThe commodore was the first "computer" I ever laid hands on, but the Atari was my first games console.
I can remember playing Galaxian and Missile command on this old thing. -
@C0D4 Yeah, I still have it, although it's boxed in storage. I do still have every program and asset I've accumulated since '85 as well, so I do sometimes load up stuff I've written in that era in VICE (emulator).
I also used an ATmega to build a C64 cartridge reader, as some of my games got published as cartridges.
I am this old.
joke/meme