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    • OsvaldoO
      Osvaldo
      last edited by Osvaldo

      Hey, I watched some of these videos with my friend years ago when we were 5, it remind me of my old commodore 64 and making my first program and taking it apart and getting grounded!!! funny times!!

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        Scott Banned
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        I used to watch this show too!

        Had a TI 99/4A and an IBM PCjr.

        Other kids on the block had Commodore 64, VIC-20, Timex Sinclair 1000.

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        • brianwinkelmannB
          brianwinkelmann
          last edited by scottalanmiller

          I've never seen a computer using a cassette in my whole life, this is new for me! so amazing, I started with Floppy Disks, so the first episode was so interesting!!!

          Bits and Bytes.png
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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @brianwinkelmann
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            @brianwinkelmann I started using computers in 1979 and it was a cassette almost identical to that!

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @Scott
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              @Scott said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

              Had a TI 99/4A and an IBM PCjr.

              Ha! "Had", past tense. Lame. 😉

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Osvaldo
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                @Osvaldo said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                Hey, I watched some of these videos with my friend years ago when we were 5, it remind me of my old commodore 64 and making my first program and taking it apart and getting grounded!!! funny times!!

                Couldn't have been five, the show shouldn't have come out in Canada until you were seven.

                I saw them on the original broadcast because they were from my local TV station.

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                • brianwinkelmannB
                  brianwinkelmann
                  last edited by brianwinkelmann

                  It is so interesting that those decades programs can just run in specific computers, I think that now it depends on the OS, but anyway programs can be emulated or now come multi platform.
                  Bits and Bytes3.png

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                  • OsvaldoO
                    Osvaldo
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                    jejeje I remember been super young and curious!!! so long ago... wonderful times

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @brianwinkelmann
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                      @brianwinkelmann said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                      It is so interesting that those decades programs can just run in specific computers, I think that now it depends on the OS,

                      It's the same. If you compile nothing has changed. Compile some C code for your AMD64 PC. It can't run anywhere else, like on a Raspberry Pi.

                      This is actually one of the important lessons from the series... each of those computers had its own processor architectures. That still exists today, just newer procs like Itanium, AMD64, Sparc, MIPS, ARM32, ARM64, IA32, etc.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @Scott
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                        @Scott said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                        Had a TI 99/4A

                        If anyone has one of these to donate to a collection...

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                          scotth
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                          I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
                          I thought it was cool at the time.

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                          • travisdh1T
                            travisdh1 @scotth
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                            @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                            I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
                            I thought it was cool at the time.

                            It was awesome for it's time.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @scotth
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                              @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                              I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
                              I thought it was cool at the time.

                              Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.

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                                scotth @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
                                I thought it was cool at the time.

                                Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.

                                I honestly don't remember. I got it as a gift and learned to do a little coding from the user manual. I'm not even sure what language it used when I wrote the code (copied from the manual). Hell, for all I know, the wife could have it sequestered away from me in a closet.
                                I'm pretty sure that I have a color Panasonic 24pin dot matrix printer somewhere. I'll have to do a search & destroy this year for spring cleaning.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @scotth
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                                  @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                  @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                  I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
                                  I thought it was cool at the time.

                                  Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.

                                  I honestly don't remember. I got it as a gift and learned to do a little coding from the user manual. I'm not even sure what language it used when I wrote the code (copied from the manual). Hell, for all I know, the wife could have it sequestered away from me in a closet.
                                  I'm pretty sure that I have a color Panasonic 24pin dot matrix printer somewhere. I'll have to do a search & destroy this year for spring cleaning.

                                  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Atari-800-Computer-FL.jpg/1200px-Atari-800-Computer-FL.jpg

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    http://media.arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.media/atari48.jpg

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                                      scotth @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                      @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                      @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                      I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
                                      I thought it was cool at the time.

                                      Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.

                                      I honestly don't remember. I got it as a gift and learned to do a little coding from the user manual. I'm not even sure what language it used when I wrote the code (copied from the manual). Hell, for all I know, the wife could have it sequestered away from me in a closet.
                                      I'm pretty sure that I have a color Panasonic 24pin dot matrix printer somewhere. I'll have to do a search & destroy this year for spring cleaning.

                                      https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Atari-800-Computer-FL.jpg/1200px-Atari-800-Computer-FL.jpg

                                      That looks about right. There were connections on it like an old VT terminal.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        I always wanted an Atari 800 as a kid. When I was a little older though, this is the Atari I dreamed of...

                                        https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Atari_1040STf.jpg/1200px-Atari_1040STf.jpg

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                                          scotth
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                                          I had a few buddies that were seriously into the Commodore stuff. Big game collections. Ran great.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @scotth
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                                            @scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                            I had a few buddies that were seriously into the Commodore stuff. Big game collections. Ran great.

                                            I'm a big commodore collector. I have a VIC20, C64, C16, C128, and Amiga 1000.

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