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• Jerry Jessop
  ...time to figure out, was the CPU, the 65O2 on the 400/800, would run up to 1.8MHz depending on how much time the Antic would steal cycles from the CPU. ...antial machine. At the end of the day, if you were going to spend $700 or $1,000, $700 dollars back in 1979 or 1980 was a lot of money, you might as wel
  63 KB (12,010 words) - 04:16, 6 May 2015
• Scott Adams
  ...bled, I didn't have to build anything, it was ready. It was a TRS Model 80-1 from RadioShack. ...4, which became the 99/4a, which then they decided is not selling and the $1,000 machine was being sold for $50.
  40 KB (7,582 words) - 04:27, 6 May 2015
• Rich Pasco
  ...ut of a book. I said, "OK, now go count the characters on each line." He's 1, 2, 3, 4 ...., 79, 80, 81, 82, 83. 83 characters on that line. I said, "Gre 1, 2, 3, 79. OK count the characters on the next line. 1, 2, 3, 86. So you see I'm getting an average of more than 80 characters per
  36 KB (6,627 words) - 04:31, 6 May 2015
• Bob Bishop
  ...e of his associates. So I became their first customer and bought an Apple-1 from them. ...ake a computer. I wanted one that was already put together, and the Apple-1 was the first one that came close. You wouldn't call it put together by to
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• Jim Capparell
  ...d of the Facebook site, so that stuff trickles in over the [indecipherable 1:09:38] . I posted in response to a couple of postings. I've added my two ce Kevin: [indecipherable 1:13:03] with the waxer and put the...
  65 KB (12,309 words) - 04:35, 7 May 2015
• Carl Helmers
  Source: Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 http://www.vintage.org/2013/southeast/session.php ...hrough Info Data, which is another big company in Rochester. I also did PL/1 programs and some Macro Assembly language. One of the neatest, in terms of
  43 KB (7,998 words) - 05:03, 7 May 2015
• JD Casten
  ...’t have two vectors on a String variable— you couldn’t simply define ROOM$(1) as “The Ship’s Bridge”, and ROOM$(5) as “The Medical Lab”; but A ...my Atari 130XE until 1994 when I finally got a PC with Microsoft Windows 3.1 and began to explore the internet via a phone-line (I’d heard of Compuser
  35 KB (5,803 words) - 00:12, 20 October 2021
• Michael Phillips
  Anyway, you’d have 1 or 2 people opening the returns and putting everything into a “carrier” ...me. My starting salary of $11K finished at $22K – not a bad ramp-up for 3 1/2 years time!
  24 KB (4,229 words) - 17:39, 11 May 2015
• Ken Leonhardi
  (WR) Is it accurate to say there were 6 releases, 1 through 6? ...pell checker. Can you cite key differences for each version starting with 1?
  12 KB (2,187 words) - 13:36, 19 May 2015
• Gray Chang
  ...eos is that, I think it was in Deluxe, you can start playing with joystick 1 against the computer and you can just put down the joystick and switch play ...two players. Potentially, each dog could collect 99 biscuits and have only 1 biscuit in the maze. You can imagine the ferocity of the competition for th
  32 KB (6,131 words) - 23:07, 3 November 2023
• Bill Mensch
  ...ou trip over…. going from my 816, to something competitive, you need about 1,000 engineers. And so that’s why I never did it. Now did I specify it? Ca ...so the timing of the 816 would allow the asteroids to not break up at the 1 MHz clock rate. So actually if you took the 816 and built a new Atari out o
  54 KB (10,053 words) - 18:31, 20 January 2017
• Fernando Herrera
  ...ed everything on it. It was like $2,500 of 1980. I think today, it's like $1 million. Fernando: Renumber, right. Because the lines were 1,2,3,4,5, that was the BASIC at that time. And you have to insert something,
  62 KB (11,928 words) - 21:29, 14 May 2015
• Mike Albaugh
  ...mputer when you have attached a CRT display to it and Space War on the PDP 1 which rapidly became something that every deck salesman would show off to p ...f a triangular board that will have 1 SIO connector to connect to the 800, 1 SIO connector to connect to the rest of the chain and a USB connector so th
  47 KB (9,003 words) - 16:27, 18 May 2015
• Albert Yarusso
  ...down here to visit, loved the city, moved here a month later and, on July 1, a month and a half after I moved here, Looking Glass shut our offices down
  53 KB (10,062 words) - 18:45, 11 September 2015
• Wayne Green
  ...Graw-Hill for $7 million dollars. Within a year or so it was billing over $1 million a month in ad sales and it got up to 800 pages a month, magazine. I ...bout the size of a coffee mug. He had one watt of electricity going in and 1,000 watts of heat coming out for the length of this show. What you do is yo
  38 KB (7,119 words) - 00:00, 20 October 2021
• Bill Crooks
  ...u know Atari hobbyists. Typical episode gets listened to between 1,000 and 1,500 people. ...nes from Ampex that they called them VPR3 there, which was a revolutionary 1-inch helical videotape machine. They were about… I think $140,000 or $150
  29 KB (5,345 words) - 17:06, 17 November 2015
• Nolan Bushnell
  ...just sort of took a dump before, we, when we were all ready. We had the S-1 all written and everything, and the underwriters selected and the markets j
  27 KB (4,999 words) - 17:16, 17 November 2015
• Peter Liepa
  PL: I think at the time I think it was something called an IBM Series-1, which was a minicomputer built for real-time control. I’d studied contro ...e exposure to machine-language, or very low-level language. The IBM Series-1, for example, ran on something like. Or an interpreted low-level language s
  22 KB (4,089 words) - 17:59, 20 November 2015
• Ted Richards
  ...e actually had made… You know IBM had like WordStar. It had, I mean… Lotus 1-2-3 came out and all that. So immediately, within a couple of weeks, I had
  42 KB (7,913 words) - 23:26, 23 November 2015
• Steve Davis
  ...n. Atari was pretty successful. It was like making a big movie, they made $1 billion and they moved on. They were very smart, and they weren’t a high-
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