BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Typing in the code from a magazine expecting an "arcade experience". Ah I remember that too. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Back then, an "arcade experience" wasn't that hard to achieve, even in BASIC. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Yes, you're right Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Originally Posted By: keba Memories... I remember wasting an enormous amount of time trying to program games and other pointless rubbish in BASIC at high school on the Apple IIe's there, then when all the uber-geeks started in PASCAL and FORTRAN, I went and took up a musical instrument. I remember my dismay when I arrived at a new school, to teach computing studies, to find that the computer room contained a total of 9 Apple //e, //GS and //c machines. With a class of around 20 year 11 students (one year from leaving school) that was always going to be ordinary! I managed to locate a source of secondhand Intel 80286 machines with 64M RAM and 20M Harddrives. These Intel boxes survived around 10 years, and a number of heart and mind transplants, until I left the school with them as pentium 2 with 512M or 1024M RAM and 200M drives, all networked to a server running dual P3 processors and raid 2. Ahhhh ... memories! I built these all from parts scrounged (or bought on eBay). Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 We had a room full of Apple IIe's, and in 1981, that was on the cutting edge, as far as we were concerned. We were stoked! Link to post Share on other sites
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