jaybird3rd

I always meant to read the 8048 data sheets. My life began with 6502 and then x86.

The 8048 is certainly a unique beast.

It's an interesting little microcontroller. Among many other things, it was used as the onboard controller in IBM's original Model M keyboards; I think my Unicomp Model Ms still use the 8048, at least in the PS/2 versions.

I am looking fopward to having that time to do that

I use a steam powered calculator.

I'm totally going to classic game in my free time during retirement.

Ah crap. October 7th is my birthday too

No, the end of the world will be in the year 2020.

I think it will be in the year 2525 ... if man is still alive.

So do I.

I will defiantly remember that.

@Emehr: I think that's spelled "deifnately".

I still have my pencil iron from RS from 1979. I use it a couple of times every year. The things this soldering iron stuck itself into would be the envy of even today's finest equipment.

"... and if you don't want to, you can sleep in the f***ing cold!"

"I got your crackpipe, bitch"

"I'm not on my knees and I didn't say 'please'!"

Calling ununderstood objects a 'thing' is just a phase people go through.

I don't understand this inter-web-info-superhighway-thing-e.

How much of a pain in the rear end is it to replace those console switches? My 7800's power switch is getting finicky.

Not too difficult. There are four legs on each switch, two per side. To make it easier, I heated each of the two pairs with my soldering tip and pried them out of the holes once the solder was liquid. I then cleaned out the holes later and soldered in the new switches.

... a comet hit the earth and wiped out mankind.

Somebody set up us every Zig, so we kind of had to move our Zig.

... for great justice!

"Braingames...is now...over ;.;"

i used to watch that! LOL i think i may have even sampled it once on my show.

Isn't a timeless watch a broken watch?

At least a broken watch is right twice a day!

The big hand has struck the dumb!

Not enough of a market. A fan could make one, but could they make it cheap enough that you'd buy one?

People have to remember something for it to be a flashback, don't they? (I'd love it too!)

And the Bally Videocade!!

The molecular acid challenge will be tonight at 11 p.m. Check your local channels for coverage!

Freeze their head IN the ice..

$30 million? You could throw a billion at it and they still won't find a cure.

I have nothing against raising awareness, and it seems to be working: I've never been more aware of buckets of ice water.

Me too. Even though I don't watch recent movies much anymore it's still a good read.

It's especially sad that books like the Movie Guide are being passed over in favor of (mostly) amateur Internet reviewers and commenters.

So many great printed resources are being killed off by inferior alternatives.

Cool. I was about to start my DX2/50 cleanup project. I came across a VS440FX board I picked up years ago and am now building that up. I never had a p-pro machine, and always wanted one since the mid 1990's. A dream finally come true!

I missed out on the Pentium Pro, too. My last Socket 8 board was a dual CPU board from Tyan, but it failed and I sold off the processors.

The closest I have now is a dual Slot 1 board based on the same 440FX chipset, a Micronics Dual Fortress.

Okay, so I installed MS Office, and when I go to create a threaded hole, Inventor is now able to populate its drop-down lists of thread sizes and the corresponding US and metric dimensions.

So apparently, Autodesk couldn't even write their own lousy unit conversion calculator for Inventor (which costs $10K per seat!); they just invoke Excel to do the math instead, and if you don't have an extra Excel license handy, screw you!

(Excuse the pun.)

I dunno, we have gotten rid of almost everything micro$haft at my office. All seems well, google docs etc

@atarian63: Google Docs is just as bad. If you have a Google account and are immersed in their ecosystem, you won't notice; but send a link to someone who doesn't, and all of a sudden, they have to jump through all manners of hoops and devious "sign-up" pages just to view a stupid memo! Oh, and don't get me started if you enabled Ghostery or disabled JavaScript--you won't even know why things don't look or work as expected.

For me, the classic PC of the early era was/is the 486. Software bloat wasn't a problem yet - but was getting there.

I also agree that one-time setups were a plus. Today you're always having to dick around with something or other.

Too bad this wasn't made a thread.. Because PC's of that era are going to become classics real soon if not already.

Why not copy paste all these comments and make a thread!

Sounds like a good idea! It will give me the chance to post pictures, too.

It's going to be embarrassing when we're all enslaved by 8-bit robots.

That's why I'm interfacing them through the joystick ports. I want to keep them on a tight leash!

LOL

yup and The mother country wasn't even aware we were independent until late August, so there is that too

@djfurreh: Then, let them celebrate their loss on their own date.

Let us celebrate the date when the Illuminati opened a branch office.

Thanks

THANK YOU !

like Ouya....

One would be better off running an emulator on a PSP or a tablet. This is just an emulator running on a dead company branded device.

what emulator? If we're talking about brand new android devices carrying the Atari brand name, then we're talking about brand new, modern games, not emulated 35 year old games.