Need some experienced advice

[mister_e]

I've been a basic freak for yonks too, started with the VIC-20, remember them? Did some assembler with the 6502 but long since forgotten.

WOOHOO, those where the days

I can't imagine there's a lot of people here reminding that we used regular audio cassette to store/read our programs. This sure make me feel an old guy

I begun with TI-99/4A, then VIC-20, TRS-80, COCO-2, Commodore 64, 128, then 8080, 8088, etc etc ...

Anyway, enjoy the forum and the camaraderie(? spelling?) in here.

That's french and seems to be almost same in English..
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/camaraderie
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/comradery

[malc-c]

Steve, you and me must be of the same generation

I started with the Sinclair ZX81 (I think it was called the Texas 81 in the US ?) - was amazed that you could get a full "traditional" startrek game with an 8 x 8 galaxy, black holes, bases etc all in 1K of memory !

As for the audio tapes, I remember playing them on a hi-fi and you could hear the actual pitch changes representing the 1's and 0's - baud rate of about 10 I guess

[mister_e]

LMAO... I had the Zx80... just forgot to mention

I still have the VIC-20 schematic and programming book

[bill12780]

I feel so at home here.

I too owned a Timex-Sinclair a vic20, 64, ti-99 4/a and I remember loading programs from my cassette player! Rember how kewl it was to load the program and then 30 mins latter you could come back program AND listen to your favorite band!

then moved to a sanyo mbc-550 (pc clone, dual 5 1/4" 720K floppies! I was the man back then! first one of my friends to have a 1200 baud modem we all had 300's then)

Anyone one any apple stuff from back in the day. I had a apple IIe, a IIc and a lisa...Never bought a mac though...

We all must be 30-40 somthings....

bill12780

[Pic_User]

I feel so at home here.
I too owned a Timex-Sinclair a vic20, 64, ti-99 4/a and I remember loading programs from my cassette player! Rember how kewl it was to load the program and then 30 mins latter you could come back program AND listen to your favorite band!...

... We all must be 30-40 somthings....
bill12780

Hey! Some of us were 30 something when we got the VIC-20!
-Adam-