Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  well yeah and because you don’t want to type the listing down all over again, you save it onto tape.

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• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a 40 year old book about TI BASIC somewhere in the garage plus some magazines with games. I built a fantasy game and saved it to cassette.

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  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For a ti-99/4a? Me too! It was my favorite thing (up until my dad bought a used 286 from work, then skipped a few generations and went right to a Pentium 133)

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s the one! It’s also in the garage. Still worked a while back when I hooked it up through a few adapters.

      I always dumpster dived for computers. My buddy showed me where to go and when so we’d upgrade every year together when one of the local junior colleges threw out a bunch of stuff. We were always a few years behind but we had more tech toys than folks on the edge of poverty had the chance to pick up back in those days.

      I remember being a teen in the late 90s with some computers to use and some to sell and we ended up selling enough to both get Bigfoot drives. A couple of gigs was MASSIVE compared to the TI stuff we both started on.

      He’s still got the tax software with the booklet and ads featuring Bill Cosby running around somewhere. He’s also got a tattoo of the motherboard of the TI-99/4a because he said without it he wouldn’t be where he is today. But he doesn’t like Bill Cosby anymore.

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      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I always dumpster dived for computers.

        We played the same game! Thats how I ended up with a DEC pizza box (multia with an alpha 166 processor) and a SparcStation. Then I’d take them over with me to the computer show (it was more like a flea market, its unfortunate they no longer exist) after I played with them to trade - thats how I was able to get my hands on a 1x (yes you read that right) CD burner.

        Good times!

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    • socsa@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Same, except we had a cyrix processor

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      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That was my followup to the P133, a Cyrix MII chip (when they added MMX to the series), with the 266mhz chip! Ran like shit 😄. I think I replaced that with a K6.

        Those were… Quickly changing times haha

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