• (cs) in reply to Tony P
    Tony P:
    Err... In fact it's more like:

    if(input.ToLower() == "no") { //do stuff }

    Why is everyone using case changes instead of case-insensitive compares?

  • Josh (unregistered)

    Any chance of finding the Cosby one hosted somewhere in high-dpi so I could have one on my cube wall? :)

  • James (unregistered) in reply to mjk340

    Perhaps a construct like: if upcase(input)="NO" would suffice ?

  • bramster (unregistered) in reply to LeftNut
    LeftNut:
    The original IBM PC Model A did come with a single 160KB single-sided drive. The motherboards on the PCAs supported up to 64K of RAM in four banks of 16 KB DIP packages. The 256 KB motherboards came later, on the PC Model B, along with the upgrade to 180 K SS and 360 KB DS floppy drives. I was a co-op student with IBM at the time, and I plugged a metric crapton of 16 KB DIP DRAM packages into those motherboards. :-)

    Close, but no seegar. The Original IBM PC had NO floppy disk drives. . . it had a connector for a cassette tape drive, identical in appearance to the keyboard connector.

    Yep. 16 kb of memory. I remember taking out a $3000 bank loan to buy it. I eventually installed the full 64kb of motherboard memory, added another 320kb on a card, added 180kb floppy drives, later upgraded them to 360kb drives, and, wonder of wonders, a 10-megabyte external hard disk.

    Those were the days, indeed. . .

  • kahuna (unregistered)

    lol... i still have my TI-59. hasn't worked in years... the card reader was the first thing to go... but it's still there. can't bear to part with it.

  • LEGO (unregistered) in reply to OldSchoolGeek
    OldSchoolGeek:
    ayla:
    How much does it cost to add lower case to the Apple II? :D What character set were they using?

    A soldering iron, a friend with an EEPROM burner, and a wire from the chargen PROM to a pin on the game port input.

    And then you looked 1773 on your 300-baud modem.

    Captcha: GoodGodYou'reFreakinOLD!!! No, not really.

    Don't you mean 1337? If you really wanted to be leet back in the day, you sported a 1200 baud Racal-Vadic modem.

    Those where the days...

    -Lego

  • (cs) in reply to CDarklock
    CDarklock:
    I knew a DIY kind of guy in Virginia. When I went to his house for the first time, it took me about three minutes to ask - with great concern for his sanity - WTF he was doing with C64 disk drives hooked to his television, stereo, coffee pot, dishwasher, the list went on.

    I did something similar when I was experiementing in college with different robotics projects. The disk drive was actually pretty versitile to rig into several other things. It was easy to find some good i/o and most of it was rigged to some TI chips where you could find the diagram in any TI reference book. Add some additional solid state relays and you could power anything you wanted to. It took some time to analyze what was mapped up, but doable.

  • Bezalel (unregistered) in reply to sf
    sf:
    How is it that TI could trade-mark "Solid State Software?" Isn't that kind of like trade-marking something like "milk chocolate?"
    Yes, and Philisophy has a trademark on the words "milk chocolate"
  • OldSchoolGeek (unregistered) in reply to LEGO
    LEGO:
    OldSchoolGeek:
    ayla:
    How much does it cost to add lower case to the Apple II? :D What character set were they using?

    A soldering iron, a friend with an EEPROM burner, and a wire from the chargen PROM to a pin on the game port input.

    And then you looked 1773 on your 300-baud modem.

    Captcha: GoodGodYou'reFreakinOLD!!! No, not really.

    Don't you mean 1337? If you really wanted to be leet back in the day, you sported a 1200 baud Racal-Vadic modem.

    Those where the days...

    -Lego

    I never did the handset-coupled modems, thank God. Hayes MicroModem ][ - direct connect 300baud (no touch tone though, just pulse) and later an AppleCat with the 1200baud daughterboard (212?)

    But I do have at least one Racal-Vadic power supply in the garage -- +5 and +/-12 VDC.

    Oh, and I blame the host for making my 1337speak into 1773. I swear.

  • Maetrix (unregistered) in reply to mjk340

    Not to be pedantic, but that code snippit would fail because of a coding error. Can YOU find it? >;D

    --Mætrix--

  • Nop (unregistered)

    Did anyone else notice the op code functions on the TI. Looks like you'd be forced to assemble everything in op codes and probably would never know where the PC, SP, or LC where located.

  • mickeyding (unregistered)

    Want to hear a funny story ? I helped a mate of mine interface a baudot machine to a standard serial interface and then connected it to the internet and communicated between Australia and Newfoundland with it. 60 Baud, 5 bit characters, custom voltage level shifting interface to talk to the mechanical device running with a 30 volt power supply. 5 bits => 32 character set - no lowercase, few punctuation characters. The interface was written in VB and did character translation using lookup tables. It used some calls to windows APIs to set the uart to nonstandard settings to get the timing right.

  • YazzY (unregistered) in reply to mjk340

    #!/bin/sh

    case $0 in [Nn]|[Nn][Oo])

    foo ;;

    esac

  • Kulkern (unregistered)

    Sorry for my bad English... but, nobody saw the 5 1/2" disks in the Commodore Ad? "Maximum 5 1/2" Disk Capacity per Drive"

  • peeto (unregistered)

    Somewhere, hidden under some Sun VME boards in a box of cruft, I have the BYTE Magazine with this one on the back cover...

    [image]
  • Alush (unregistered)

    What a lame Photoshop of Cosby holding the TI-59!

  • LaRoach (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent

    Oddly enough I just found my TRS portable this weekend in a box. Dropped in new batteries and the little bugger powered right up!

  • GreatCircle (unregistered)

    My God, I used to watch Mathnet all the time as a kid.

  • anj (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent

    Oh my god I had one of those!

    And to think now I carry around this huge notepad pc...whatever happened to the glorious future of the past?

    (and don't say "iphone" or I'll smack you)

  • anj (unregistered) in reply to anj
    anj:
    Oh my god I had one of those!

    And to think now I carry around this huge notepad pc...whatever happened to the glorious future of the past?

    (and don't say "iphone" or I'll smack you)

    referring to the pocket TRS-80, of course.

  • A-Nona-Mouse (unregistered)

    EEEK!!!!!

    I actually still one EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM!

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