Blast from the past

Rocketdork · Post by **Rocketdork** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:16 am

A nice review of the Apple Macintosh!

Post by **miftah** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:24 am

Rocketdork · Post by **Rocketdork** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:34 am

Found on Slashdot...could be the slashdot effect.

Try again, later in the day.

Post by **bio** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:53 am

It just worked for me.

I have one of those at my house. It still works (and I fire it up from time to time when I feel all nostalgic).

baldy · Post by **baldy** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:17 am

he he he reminds me just how dumb i musta looked when i was 17 with a bullet belt, torn jeans, an italian WWII trnchcoat .... and a mannekins hand under my shoulder lapels

Post by **miftah** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:25 am

Its working now.

Nice! I know its an obvious reaction, but I kept giggling at the novelty of it. I am also slightly appreciative that there machines have gotten ever-so-slightly cheaper in the last 20-odd years.

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:16 am

Byte Magazine in '84 wrote:The Macâ€™s display does create a problem. Computer graphics are memory-intensive, once you start drawing pictures, you start using up lots of memory. The video display itself consumes about 22K bytes (or about one-sixth) of the total RAM. Any off-screen manipulation (windows) or information (fonts) chews up additional memory quickly.

Sheesh! Only 22K?

Encap · Post by **Encap** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:05 pm

I know... if only they were coding stuff now, to be as tight as possible.

There was a brief time in the late 90s where I had just a hair under the amount of system memory, than video memory.

Post by **bio** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:22 pm

Encap wrote:I know... if only they were coding stuff now, to be as tight as possible.

You don't like MS Bloatware? How will they sell faster processors and more RAM if the OS companies don't dog your machine down?!?

How damn un-american! You're supposed to CONSUME!!

Encap wrote: There was a brief time in the late 90s where I had just a hair under the amount of system memory, than video memory.

My first pc had 8kb of memory.... total. I held out for the 8kb box... not that crappy slow 4kb one... I wanted the OMG SUPER SPIFFY AND STUFFS 8kb!

The 16kb version came out 6 months later. doh!

ZIPPER · Post by **ZIPPER** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 1:08 pm

baldy wrote:and a mannekins hand under my shoulder lapels

What in the world did the hand repersent?

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:31 pm

bio wrote:How damn un-american! You're supposed to CONSUME!!

Psshh! And you wonder why we're treated increasingly like ciphers.