Webb wrote on Feb 16^th, 2007 at 2:51pm:


1024 times, please. My laptop insists on this.

...and never forget the massive power of a Pentium MMX 233Mhz over a 6510 at 1 measly megahertz.


Camel_Moe wrote on Feb 17^th, 2007 at 2:59am:


You prolly are. But then, I am too. And everyone who remembers with nostalgia old softwares gone by (that nowadays we'd never use even as a freeware ) is as well.

Camel_Moe wrote on Feb 17^th, 2007 at 4:21pm:


One of those who opened laterally to show a plasma monochrome red display and which keyboard was the mobile opening hatch? Waaaa... we go way back with those. Seen only on magazines, at the time were the non plus ultra, nowadays are endearing old traps.

Like the portable C64. A friend of mine has it still. A suitcase sized computer with 5 inches tube screen (can't remember now if it was mono or color) and which keyboard was the upper covering of the suitcase and a 5 1/4 inches floppy drive only with no cassette option (the audio cassette was a very widely used media for software, at the time).

Nowadays I use old softwares on my Pentium MMX 233 + 512MB cache laptop (on which for a while I installed first FS4, for retrogaming, because it was my first, and then FS95, who is a windowed porting of FS5.1 [found them both on the abandonware rings, some time ago]). Been trying to find one of those ancient softwares that slowed down pentiums to 286 speeds in dos to play even more ancient stuff nowadays found as abandonware, with no success.

Some time ago had for a while a color screen laptop with a 486 25Mhz with no secondary cache and 20 MB ram and the sole floppy disk as interface, but gave it away. Its video ram was defective, originally 512MB were wired on the mainboard, but only 256 were working when I used it.

I guess different screen types were used on different models of the same computer. Really can't remember more about it and struck a long term memory thread only because of the unusual screen tech and color, back then.

My absolute first was a CBM PET, given to me by my late uncle that used it in his office, when he passed to other system in... 85 I think. A lifetime ago for real. A beast of computer with mono green 12 inch tube display and keyboard all fused in a incredibly heavy single metal encased machine. It had a separate and only slightly lighter double 5 1/4 inch high density floppy unit that amassed each up to 1.2 Mb (an impossible quantity of storage memory, way back then).

Gave it away for a C64 on which to play videogames. lol. Was young, back then.

Non_Jetreader2 wrote on Feb 19^th, 2007 at 11:14am:


Seem to remember something like that, but was way before. Something about 10~12 years ago.

Only a vague memory at that. Cannot be of any help.

Sorry, I am older. Use FS1 many year ago. BAO London, England. Now, we both old.