Oh, now you've got me started. Get your 2nd 5 1/2" floppy. Not just for copying (who wants to pull those things in and out) but to support the green screen monitor.
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I drilled holes into both of mine and installed hard-wired write-protect switches. Used the dual floppies to copy some Beagle Brothers utilities.
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I missed that, but still remember being blown away when my family got a color monitor for our //c to replace the amber one
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for me it was my first computer that supported QuickDraw3D. Mind fucking blown. I could copy and paste 3D objects just like text! Look at them from /different angles/ from just the normal desktop UI!
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Getting Conway‘s Game of Life working on a CBM3032, in assembly, using a tweaked character generator EPROM because that thing didn’t have a graphics card.
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First emails sent and received using a 300-baud acoustic coupler. Using an IBM XT as a file server for a Heathkit H89 via RS232 at 115kbps. After upgrading SIOs with 16550s. Assembly throughout, everything else was too slow.
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Trying to communicate with a BBS over a noisy telephone line using a 300-baud modem - and then getting a 1200-baud MNP modem with error correction codes. Man, what a world of difference in speed and accuracy!
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I still remember the feeling when we first heard the Sound Blaster we had saved up forever for. Might & Magic 3 is seared into my memory.
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Like getting a second monitor?
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The feeling of hitting that 80-column switch on the Commodore 128 was
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