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desiv

Member Since 18 Oct 2002
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In Topic: What "classic" computer company has the most interesting history?

Sun Feb 5, 2012 9:05 PM

View Postakator, on Sat Feb 4, 2012 4:29 AM, said:

I think the TRS-80, TI computers, and Kildall/CPM all need more legitimate, vetted things written about them. I've read what's out there and can't help but feel there are major parts of the story missing...
True..
The Osborne story is great (well, in a bad way) too..
Kill your business by talking about your next model way too soon...

There's lots of really interesting stories out there..

desiv

In Topic: Consoles you bought for one particular game

Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:28 PM

Had a co-worker years ago who was frustrated with his kids.
They had saved money and were going to buy handhelds...
They wanted gameboys and he was trying to sell them on the NeoGeo Pocket (can't remember if these were color).

He said there were honestly impressed with what he showed them about the NGP...

But then they said, "Can it play Pokemon?"

And they bought Gameboys...

desiv

In Topic: What "classic" computer company has the most interesting history?

Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:59 AM

Thing that's great about the early industry, there are so many great stories...
The Apple ][, built in the garage, offered to HP and they said NO.... That's just awesome..

I also love the Amiga story; ex-Atari designers (and others) building a "game machine" funded by dentists, goes on to be a breakthru multitasking, multimedia machine... (Not saying it was the first to do either..)

Commodore with anything involving Jack Tramiel and Chuck Peddle.. ;-)

Even the Mac, with the original Mac coming up to save the day from the Lisa release/price-point. (And the back story of killing the II line to enable the Mac, while the II line was keeping the company afloat...)..

Now, there's semi-truths in all of those, but that's part of what makes them great.. It's the story AND the myth.. ;-)

I'm torn between the Apple ][ and Amiga stories being the best, but a lot of that is personal investments... ;-)

desiv

In Topic: Choose Your Own Adventure Computer Games?

Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:00 PM

Takes me back...
I remember being a big fan of those books, and when I got my Vic20, one of my (in not the) first BASIC programming project I did was to convert one of my books to a text adventure...

Lots of prints, and if GOTOs.. ;-)

Can't remember if I ever finished it, but I remember starting it.. ;-)

desiv

In Topic: Early commodore history (as a computer company)

Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:56 AM

Just reading Bagnell's book, and it's in there too...

Can't remember how early that was, but basically as I remember, Commodore wanted to make computers and sell them thru Radio Shack.
Radio Shack looked and decided they could do that themselves..

Wish I had a better memory, but oh well..
Can't remember if that was PET or earlier, but I "thought" it was the PET....

desiv

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