Old tech in a Cobra?
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dayrth
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KEYBOARD!
That, good sir, is the BBC model B. One of the finest computers ever built (and the original platform for the original Elite).
KEYBOARD!
That, good sir, is the BBC model B. One of the finest computers ever built (and the original platform for the original Elite).
Lol, just looked like a really chunky old keyboard. Still doesn't look like the thing in the cobra pic.
dayrth
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I used to have a 300/76 acoustic coupler. (I'm very old).
There are probably people on these forums young enough to not know what either of us are talking about
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I've been trying to get 8 track tapes to fit in there!
I'm surprised you can find any!
Where is the card reader and paper tape? (the first computer I ever used had these). IBM 1400 series, lol.
First computer I ever used was a ZX81.
Had a whopping 1 Kb of ram and with a 3.25mhz cpu.
I did get the ram upgrade pack that went on the back which took it up to 56k.
It used a cassette tape to load games.
After that I got ZX specturm 48k which I played Elite on.
Those were the days.
Had a whopping 1 Kb of ram and with a 3.25mhz cpu.
I did get the ram upgrade pack that went on the back which took it up to 56k.
It used a cassette tape to load games.
After that I got ZX specturm 48k which I played Elite on.
Those were the days.
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I used to have a 300/76 acoustic coupler. (I'm very old).
There are probably people on these forums young enough to not know what either of us are talking about
Yeah baby. 10KByte/hour of blazing transfer speed. You could damn near download 2MBytes per week. That's an entire GByte every 10 years.
Had one. Learned to love it, learned to hate it.
Playing Star Trek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game) on a 300baud modem and doing a long range sensor scan was a study in patience.
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dayrth
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And you had to keep your mouth shut while using it, because any noise in the room could stuff up your connection. Ahh the good old days
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Don't forget the SD card reader on the Anaconda! [haha] Sorry, no pic, at work, but just look at the keyboard on the left
Yep, I see it there.
KEYBOARD!
That, good sir, is the BBC model B. One of the finest computers ever built (and the original platform for the original Elite).
What the heck does it compute? 2+2 = 5?
Yes, for sufficiently large values of 2.
dayrth
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2mHz 6502 cpu, 32K of memory, built in parallel interface, built in serial interface, built in analogue to digital converter (all programmable). External power take off socket. Built in BASIC interpreter, but any other (that existed at the time) could be loaded or 6502 assembler. All this in 1982. It was a FANTASTIC piece of hardware. As well as playing Elite I used mine to control a home built robot arm.