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Originally Posted by pimpware
And high and low density floppy disks, remember ?
High density disks was a huge step  1.2Mb of fucking storage 
And how about a hack ? Remember ?
Transforming a low density into a high density disk, doubling the storage capacity.
Using a drill to do an extra hole on a low density, then format it and surprise surprise, you got a new High Density Floppy Disk !!
That's oldschool, which means I'm getting old |
or using a puncher to turn your single side 5 1/4" floppy into a double side floppy for your Commodore 1541 drive
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Originally Posted by Rand
I remember programming in BASIC using line numbers.
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10 print "Hello World!"
20 goto 10
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Originally Posted by cykoe6
Damn... the words "Trumpet Winsok" brings back a lot of painful memories.......... how I used to struggle with that shit. |
that and patching Windows 95 for 32 bit programs
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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
Manually jerking with IRQs to resolve conflicts. That was always a hoot especially if you had a lot of devices.
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this i really hated, it once took me 2 weeks to make a scanner work
I would also like to add:
Trying to write a nice looking text with a program that does not support WYSIWYG and made your text look like HTML sourcecode. and then dealing with the frustration that it took 10 minutes to print one page on a 9 pin printer that sounded like fingernails on a blackboard at the volume of a starting 747. and at the end it still looked shitty
