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Offline AllosaursRus

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Re: Apple Applies for Patent to Restrict "Unauthorized" Use of iPhones/iPods
« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2010, 01:11:59 PM »
Quote from: PatriotGame on August 25, 2010, 03:04:13 AM
Good lord, CPM that I ran on an old 2nd hand Altair then patched to run on a borrowed 1985 IBM XT. Then to DOS 2.01 on a Tandy 1000EX with COLOR CGA monitor in 1987. When one of the best games was Red Baron and an external 20 MB hard drive was huge!!!

When Apple had their own DOS, I used to hack all my buddy's files for "Ultima I, II, III". Not sure that's the right title, but it was kinda like a Dungeons and Dragons role player. I could make them invincible for a "slight fee"! Heh, heh!

20 MB???? Hell, I thought I was a hot-rod with 8!
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Re: Apple Applies for Patent to Restrict "Unauthorized" Use of iPhones/iPods
« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2010, 01:25:00 PM »
Quote from: PatriotGame on August 25, 2010, 03:04:13 AM
Then to DOS 2.01 on a Tandy 1000EX with COLOR CGA monitor in 1987. When one of the best games was Red Baron and an external 20 MB hard drive was huge!!!
:hi5: I had one of those, too.

It was a fun little machine but it completely put me off proprietary hardware forever.  You couldn't put in an expansion card without shelling out ducats for a daughterboard to mount them to.  Everything that my friends were playing on their Commodores was only available in those horrible CGA color palettes unless you ran it at super-low res 180x200 (hello, King's Quest). 
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Re: Apple Applies for Patent to Restrict "Unauthorized" Use of iPhones/iPods
« Reply #27 on: August 25, 2010, 01:43:05 PM »
Someone wanna tell me just when the hell this became a geek thread?!?!?!?!?!?  :-)
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Re: Apple Applies for Patent to Restrict "Unauthorized" Use of iPhones/iPods
« Reply #28 on: August 25, 2010, 02:00:17 PM »
Quote from: HollywoodNeoCon on August 25, 2010, 01:43:05 PM
Someone wanna tell me just when the hell this became a geek thread?!?!?!?!?!?  :-)

Heh! Us geeks get all nostalgic every once in a while. Mostly because if we would have stuck with it in our younger days, we coulda been Bill Gates!
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Re: Apple Applies for Patent to Restrict "Unauthorized" Use of iPhones/iPods
« Reply #29 on: August 25, 2010, 02:13:36 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on August 25, 2010, 02:00:17 PM
Heh! Us geeks get all nostalgic every once in a while. Mostly because if we would have stuck with it in our younger days, we coulda been Bill Gates!

You guys may as well be speaking Chinese, man.  :rotf:
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