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OT: Can the old Atari in the attic...............Nah

Pokey

Pokey

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This is way OT, but my mind wandered to the old Atari that we played Pac Man on. My second one had two slots for cartridges and you could put a basic cartridge in one and write simple programs........................It had a membrane keyboard.

Hope I'm not showing my age too much. 😀

Someone out there say they remember too..................please............... 😛

(probably crunch about one WU a year)😛 😛 😛
 
not only do i remember......i still have it somewhere......i remember tryin to write those simple "goto" and other command "programs"...
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Atari... oh no, I still remember... Am I really that old??? :Q

Aaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhh... >runs away...
 
Originally posted by: Soggysocks
Mine sits onder my bed in a box.....Has a tape drive as well as a 5.25 floppy drive 🙂

Keyboard bit the dust 🙁
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My commodore 64 still works! Iwonder how long a wu would take on that!
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I still have the punch to make the floppies 2 sided, lol!🙂
 
Wasn't the membrane keyboard on the 400xl?
I think the 800xl had more "conventional" keys.
The 400xl i had did not have a built in floppy drive, you had to buy an external one, and it was roughly the size of a cinder block.
As my floppy got older the heads had a tendency to get out of line, and i kept a screwdriver handy to reach in an turn the head alignment screw with!, as often as not while the disk was in and spinning!

Yup, now i feel old.......
 
I saw somwhere on the net about running seti on the Amiga.

Why for heavens sake. Even if you have a more modern 68040 or 68020 chip it would take ages imagine how long an A500 with 68000 would take.

Plus could you ever connect one of these to the internet. I have seen modems but is there a TCP/IP stack for AMiga DOS 1.3 out there.


I still have my A500 but I wish I still had my Vic 20. Can't even remember what chip a Vic 20 had.
 
Yeah, the good 'ol days when the computer never crashed. Tho, I've had to clean the contacts on the carts more then once! Where did I put that erraser?

And yeah that's real GOLD too! 🙂

But just think 8-10 year olds will be saying 20-30 years from now.... Remember the XBOX and how cool it was??? 🙂




 
Let me be the first to say what I'm sure a few of us are thinking:

/looks carefully in all directions, plans escape route

You guys are freakin' old 😉

/runs, secure in the knowledge that your old legs won't catch my young ones 😀

Actually, I'm a little jealous, I wish I knew all this stuff
 
Originally posted by: barbary
I still have my A500 but I wish I still had my Vic 20. Can't even remember what chip a Vic 20 had.
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It had a Commodore Semiconductor Group 6502A running at a whopping 1.0227Mhz and 5Kb of ram and 16 Kb of ROM.
It was da bomb back in the day. I even had a ext tape and floppy drive.



 
Im 20, and i had a atari!!! So your all 20? 🙂
hmm... Old Mac 512k, i could load the program on floppy into the 512k ram, and then run the data file off of a single sided floppy. 🙂

 
*feels embarrassingly young in here*

I'm only 17, and my computing experience goes back to my IBM PS/1 with a 10MHz 286 et. al. It was great for QuickBasic, but I wouldn't think twice about trying to hook it up to the internet (it did have a 2.4K modem), though I did try to run Windows 3.11 on it for a while. 😱

The irony is that my TI-89 has a processor of similar capabilities, and it cost under US$150, while the old IBM PS/1 probably cost over US$2000 in its day (I got it free from someone in the earlier part of the Windows 95 era, long after its useful life had passed - but at that time I was glad just to have any computer).
 
I had an Atari 400 (single cartridge, membrane keyboard). Programmed games on it all the time, made my own starry night screen saver, it was great. Unfortunately, it wore out by the time I was in college.
 
Wouldn't you need a ~350K harddrive space available to crunch? Plus the added size of the SETI program itself.
I don't believe SETI will run purely from RAM.

It would be interesting to see it done tho. Someone fire one up and let's see!

if a 2000MHz system can crunch a WU in ~4.5 hrs...
4.5 hrs = 270 minutes
270 * 2000 (assuming the CPU in the projected machine is a 1MHz) =2270
2270/60=37.83hrs.
That' s only a day and a half. Come on!!

Please allow for fluctuations due to MMX, SSE, increased cache sizes, and all the other advances in tech since then.
 
I never had the Atari. I had the KING of the personal computing world in the 80's the TI-99/4A!!! It had a TMS9900 CPU, I had the Peripheral Expansion Box (Huge microwaze size box) with a 5.25" floppy drive, 32K (that's K folks....Kilobytes) memory expansion card, RS-232 card, Disk Memory System, Speech Synthesizer, Acoustic Coupled modem (300 baud baby!!!) YEAH!!!

Actually, my love for computers was started by this thing. My parents spent many $$$$$ on it.


I actually sold this on eBay about three years ago for over $400.00!!! Helped me buy my PIII-600 IIRC.
 
Xemus, your math looks just a little funny there. 270 * 2000 = ?
any way, if you're going to assume 1/2000 times the power, it should take 4.5 * 2000 = 9,000 hrs (1yr and a few hours 🙂)
 
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