Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Dr. Mario Speedwagon_sl said:

If it weren't for Henry Ford, we'd all still be riding horses.

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i wouldnt mind riding a horsey, when everyone was getting around in horses the world was a much bigger place and it made people more self reliant. and if you are a treehugger a horse is greener, because it literally poops stuff that will make plants grow.

Barraco Bisi_sl said:

My buddy's 286 was the god of computering.

Learning how to modify autoexec.bat files on boot disks so we could unload enough TSRs to play Wolfenstien? Hells yeah.

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Yup having multiple boot disks just to make sure you could have the right flavors of high/lo mem needed to run something. Anybody using computers back then needed some pretty decent skills to tweak stuff enough to make it work program to program.

amigo_sl said:

That doesn't compute.

commodore amiga > crapple anything

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I thought Amigas were apple computers. Didn't apple buy Commodore at some point?

I guess not. I really honestly think that my Amiga had a little apple logo on it.

Hrm. No, it was a commodore logo.

It's funny how memory doesn't work sometimes.

amigo_sl said:

That doesn't compute.

commodore amiga > crapple anything

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Honestly in those days the Atari 520 ST was the shit for gaming. Amiga was good shit though.

Amiga was awesome. I played mine to death.

I paid $40 to buy Dungeon Master for my Amiga, got the game home and found out that it needed a 512k (K!!!) additional RAM module in order to run. I went back to the store to buy that, found out it cost $500 for the RAM module. Let off a pissed off sigh, paid the money and headed home, plugged it into the bottom of the Amiga and played the hell out of Dungeon Master.

$500 for 512k of RAM in order to play a $40 game. What a country.

faille_sl said:

Amiga was awesome. I played mine to death.

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Amigas were gaming computers back before anybody really thought of making a gaming computer. Good sound card and good video card for fast video. I loved the old pinball game I had on that thing to death it was so much better/faster than any thing else you could get similar to it on other systems/consoles.