[olug] OT: But funny

[Patrick Schmidt]

I loved my TI-99/4A. I programmed the coolest little animated robot ... and yes backed him up to cassette.

>>> Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com> 7/22/2010 11:16 PM >>>
Ah the memories... My first "home computer" was the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A.  
Of course, not counting the Atari 2600, which was just the game console.
Now I suppose that TI-99 would be worth a fortune to some 
collector...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

 I ran the Harry Potter books through a spell checker; none of those spells 
should work.



----- Original Message ----
From: Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com>
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 7:42:45 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] OT: But funny

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:32 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://www.geekvintage.com/images/commodore-64-1530-datasette.jpg 
>
>
on our nec 8086 we just hooked up a regular cassette deck to the back of the
keyboard.... although we had an excess of floppies hanging around from a
warehouse that dumped a bunch of their inventory cheaply... so other than
the amusement of listening to the recordings on a regular stereo once or
twice...

and of course everyone here has undoubtedly taken a pair of scissors or a
xacto to a 5.25" .... or pieces of tape ... etc :)

Not really 'vintage' -- but did anyone ever have one of those VHS based data
archival things ?  You'd basically just feed it off the shelf standard VHS
tapes.  It was marketed as a poor mans backup solution... but I think had
failings due to variable quality of VHS tapes.
_______________________________________________
OLUG mailing list
OLUG at olug.org 
https://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug 



      
_______________________________________________
OLUG mailing list
OLUG at olug.org 
https://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug