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      Osvaldo
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      jejeje I remember been super young and curious!!! so long ago... wonderful times

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        scottalanmiller @brianwinkelmann
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        @brianwinkelmann said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

        It is so interesting that those decades programs can just run in specific computers, I think that now it depends on the OS,

        It's the same. If you compile nothing has changed. Compile some C code for your AMD64 PC. It can't run anywhere else, like on a Raspberry Pi.

        This is actually one of the important lessons from the series... each of those computers had its own processor architectures. That still exists today, just newer procs like Itanium, AMD64, Sparc, MIPS, ARM32, ARM64, IA32, etc.

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          scottalanmiller @Scott
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          @Scott said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

          Had a TI 99/4A

          If anyone has one of these to donate to a collection...

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            scotth
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            I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
            I thought it was cool at the time.

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              travisdh1 @scotth
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              @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

              I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
              I thought it was cool at the time.

              It was awesome for it's time.

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                scottalanmiller @scotth
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                @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
                I thought it was cool at the time.

                Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.

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                  scotth @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                  @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                  I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
                  I thought it was cool at the time.

                  Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.

                  I honestly don't remember. I got it as a gift and learned to do a little coding from the user manual. I'm not even sure what language it used when I wrote the code (copied from the manual). Hell, for all I know, the wife could have it sequestered away from me in a closet.
                  I'm pretty sure that I have a color Panasonic 24pin dot matrix printer somewhere. I'll have to do a search & destroy this year for spring cleaning.

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                    scottalanmiller @scotth
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                    @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                    @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                    @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                    I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
                    I thought it was cool at the time.

                    Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.

                    I honestly don't remember. I got it as a gift and learned to do a little coding from the user manual. I'm not even sure what language it used when I wrote the code (copied from the manual). Hell, for all I know, the wife could have it sequestered away from me in a closet.
                    I'm pretty sure that I have a color Panasonic 24pin dot matrix printer somewhere. I'll have to do a search & destroy this year for spring cleaning.

                    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Atari-800-Computer-FL.jpg/1200px-Atari-800-Computer-FL.jpg

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                      scottalanmiller
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                      http://media.arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.media/atari48.jpg

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                        scotth @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                        @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                        @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                        @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                        I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
                        I thought it was cool at the time.

                        Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.

                        I honestly don't remember. I got it as a gift and learned to do a little coding from the user manual. I'm not even sure what language it used when I wrote the code (copied from the manual). Hell, for all I know, the wife could have it sequestered away from me in a closet.
                        I'm pretty sure that I have a color Panasonic 24pin dot matrix printer somewhere. I'll have to do a search & destroy this year for spring cleaning.

                        https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Atari-800-Computer-FL.jpg/1200px-Atari-800-Computer-FL.jpg

                        That looks about right. There were connections on it like an old VT terminal.

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                          scottalanmiller
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                          I always wanted an Atari 800 as a kid. When I was a little older though, this is the Atari I dreamed of...

                          https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Atari_1040STf.jpg/1200px-Atari_1040STf.jpg

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                            scotth
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                            I had a few buddies that were seriously into the Commodore stuff. Big game collections. Ran great.

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                              scottalanmiller @scotth
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                              @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                              I had a few buddies that were seriously into the Commodore stuff. Big game collections. Ran great.

                              I'm a big commodore collector. I have a VIC20, C64, C16, C128, and Amiga 1000.

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                                scotth @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                I had a few buddies that were seriously into the Commodore stuff. Big game collections. Ran great.

                                I'm a big commodore collector. I have a VIC20, C64, C16, C128, and Amiga 1000.

                                Sheeeez. They loved the Amiga's too. They were big fans of the Motorola chips IIRC.

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                                  scottalanmiller @scotth
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                                  @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                  @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                  I had a few buddies that were seriously into the Commodore stuff. Big game collections. Ran great.

                                  I'm a big commodore collector. I have a VIC20, C64, C16, C128, and Amiga 1000.

                                  Sheeeez. They loved the Amiga's too. They were big fans of the Motorola chips IIRC.

                                  Motorola made amazing chips in that era. They were the bomb.

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                                    connorsoliver
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                                    Just starting the series now, not sure what to expect but very excited. 🙂

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                                      scottalanmiller @connorsoliver
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                                      @connorsoliver said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                      Just starting the series now, not sure what to expect but very excited. 🙂

                                      It's really great stuff. Both informative AND silly and entertaining.

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                                        connorsoliver
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                                        Just finished episode 1. I'm fairly young and I haven't had much experience with older technology, so seeing how the floppy discs were read and how the programs were found through the directory was fascinating. Also, I thought it was quite comical how how large the hard discs were. Did they have smaller hard discs at this point or was that it?

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                                          JaredBusch @connorsoliver
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                                          @connorsoliver said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                          I haven't had much experience with older technology, so seeing how the floppy discs were read and how the programs were found through the directory was fascinating.

                                          it still works the same way. just the media changed.

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                                            connorsoliver @JaredBusch
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                                            @JaredBusch Ahhh I see.

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