Remember when Intellivision came out? They promised all kinds of add on accessories which included a tape drive. This was going to be your gaming device and your home computer. I still have mine along with a pot full of games. Still works!
Jack
Do NOT even get me started Jack. I had been all over eBay getting more carts for my Atari 2600 and picked up an Intellivision with the speech box and a cartfull of games.....I love Utopia and Loco-Motion...of course I never really cared or the controllers, but when the guys come over, for grins we break out the Apple IIs, the 2600 and the Intellivision....
Do NOT even get me started Jack. I had been all over eBay getting more carts for my Atari 2600 and picked up an Intellivision with the speech box and a cartfull of games.....I love Utopia and Loco-Motion...of course I never really cared or the controllers, but when the guys come over, for grins we break out the Apple IIs, the 2600 and the Intellivision....
But do you have Burger Time! Oh I now know what I need to bring to Moraine View! We can have contests projected by an LCD on the side of an Airstream!!!
Jack
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We'll have to do a cartridge inventory and what you don't have, I'll bring or the other way around.
What fun, though I can see my wife's look already........we boys and our toys.
I also have been on a Milton Bradley rampage on eBay, getting my Electronic Battleship, Star Birds (plural) and Big Trak and other odds and ends from my childhood back, that my dad was gracious enough in some cases to throw away. Do you know a Millinuem Faclon costs $50 or more today....and I had a mint one.....but I dirgress......
Should I plan on bringing a projector again this year?
Ran CPM on a Z-80 with 18K of RAM. Now have two PC servers, one with a terabyte (chock full of maps and photos) and several laptops. The F-250 tow vehicle has a dedicated laptop for moving map/GPS, plus a spare.
PCs are like the partner you know (with a few blue screen moments) versus the MAC, which is the partner who looks great but you don't know. But the new Intel MACs are looking pretty good.... .... particularly if you do Photoshop, like me.
Looks like the making of another "affinity group" rally
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But do you have Burger Time! Oh I now know what I need to bring to Moraine View! We can have contests projected by an LCD on the side of an Airstream!!!
Thomas Knoll had Photoshop in dithered black and white running on Mac Pluses back in the 80s. It was sort of freeware beta back then before Adobe took it over. It's come a long way.
Thomas Knoll had Photoshop in dithered black and white running on Mac Pluses back in the 80s. It was sort of freeware beta back then before Adobe took it over. It's come a long way.
Just looked at the history of Photoshop at http://www.storyphoto.com/multimedia...photoshop.html. It's amazing how interconnected Photoshop, ILM (Industrial Light and Magic), Lucas, Pixar, Jobs, etc. are. We have the pleasure of being right in the midst of all this brainpower and creativity. In fact, George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch and the 6,000 acres added to it adjoin our subdivision. Skywalker Ranch and the Marinwood Fire Department along Lucas Valley Road (no relation, by the way) both provide our fire protection. The difference being that the Skywalker fire trucks float throught the air and travel at light speed!!
It's been about 10 years since I owned a Mac (for 10 years) and 3 since I spent a summer with a borrowed iBook. Got a new one for work Tuesday.
- 1.66 GHz Core Duo Macintosh Mini
- 2 GB Memory, 120 GB Hard Drive
- Apple 23" 1920 x 1200 Cinema HD Display
- Apple Wireless Keyboard & Mouse
- Apple iSight Camera
- Apple USB Modem (for faxing)
- Bose Companion 2 Speakers
- Prints to a networked HP Postscript Printer
- Remote Desktop to a XP Pro 3.6GHz P4 HT
It's good to be back on a Mac again, but make no mistake about it... my job is and continues to be 99.99% Windows support. Sixteen 2003 servers and a good part of thousands of PCs.
I used the excuse that it can boot XP to buy it, and I'll probably try that, but stick with a real PC under the desk. I'm running a 16.5" diagonal 1280 x 1024 RD client window on the Mac (PPC/Rosetta) and it works pretty well despite that. The picture was taken with an Intel webcam on the PC.
From everything I've read, the Intel Core Duo Mini is just enough to view 1080i HDTV without dropping frames. I'll get some samples and see. For everything else it's fine... about the equivalent of a 2.7 or so GHz P4 or 1.8 Pentium M. And the integrated video isn't ideal for the hardcore gamers (not me). I hear Adobe users might have to live with Rosetta for awhile, and I'd guess the Mini isn't enough for that, and even the 2.0 Core-Duo iMac with dedicated video may be painful.
I saw the ads. The kid is the kid that was in the TV series Ed a couple of years ago.
Been Mac since the first 100 days in 1984. Still have my signed shell original Mac. First got online with a Basic program I had to hand enter to get on Compuserve in 1984. Was online the first day Mac was available for Applelink Personal Edition, the precursor of AOL in 1988. Have owned several since and currently use a 15" Powerbook but am starting to lust for a new 17" MacBook Pro. Guess I am a true believer.
I have both. Primary system Mac Powerbook. Need MS box for a few non Mac programs. I can now purchase a new Intel Mac and run both OSs on the same box!!! Wooo Hooo.
I had an HP, then defected to a Mac ibook. Will NEVER go back to windows. My mac has never frozen, gotten a virus or shut down on me. I can't say that about the HP.
I just switched to a macbook from years and years of headbanging over crap PC's. My latest was a high end Dell multimedia laptop that lasted a year...which included a hard drive replacement, motherboard replacement, DVD drive replacement, and various other things.
I can honestly say that I love my macbook and I doubt that I would go back to a PC system.
But...the switchover is not as seamless as it is made out to be unfortunately. Networking to our server at the office is nearly impossible, powerpoint presentation videos don't play, lots of issues.
I find myself hesitant to load my macbook with windows stuff though...it's like putting cards in the spokes of a Harley to make noise.
I think i'll maintain a PC for some stuff. My macbook is my main machine though.
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