Hey Guys,
Being an IRC addict I tried to join #System76 on Freenode in hopes to connect with other System76 users in real time, but the channel is invite only.
Just curious -- Thanks,
Sam
Hey Guys,
Being an IRC addict I tried to join #System76 on Freenode in hopes to connect with other System76 users in real time, but the channel is invite only.
Just curious -- Thanks,
Sam
Geez, I love your avatar.
I think we were going to start using Freenode a while back, but decided to put it on the back-burner. I don't think anybody has ever been invited.
Right now, we're more involved in using Twitter and identi.ca.
Thanks... I started out on the TRS-80 Color Computer 2 in the late 80's and was a die-hard TRS-80 user (moving up to a Coco 3 in 1989) until around 1992 or so. I still have all my old CoCo hardware, but I haven't pulled it out in years. Maybe when my daughter is older (she's 2 now) I'll pull it out to show her how it was when her old man was a kidGeez, I love your avatar.
Ahh. I do subscribe to the Twitter feed but I haven't hard of identi.ca... I'll check them out. Being an IRC junkie I was excited to see #System76 on Freenode, so I thought I'd ask.I think we were going to start using Freenode a while back, but decided to put it on the back-burner. I don't think anybody has ever been invited.
Right now, we're more involved in using Twitter and identi.ca.
Take care --
Sam
There there, gila_monster, I still have my Picket slide rule from college, and I still keep an Apple 11e and a Tandy TRS100 in my basement. We're not getting older, just aging like a fine wine.
Joe
<cough> Timex Sinclair 1000 </cough>
http://www.adlininc.com/uxpioneers/images/ts1000.jpg
My buddy had a TRS-80, and we actually wrote a little IM program that we used to call each other with our modems and chat! Of course, we didn't know it was an IM program at the time.
But I didn't use the Timex for that. I used the...
<cough>Commodore 64</cough>
http://cmsreport.com/files/images/Commodore64_350px.jpg
Remember that Archie Bunker song?
"Those were the days..."
I threw away my Apple II, never had a IIe.
I wish I had kept it, well maybe not, I remember lining the inside of the case with copper foil to keep it from interferring with the TV.
48 K of memory, an old TV for a monitor & an audio casset deck for storage.
I remember how thrilled I was when I got my first 5 1/4 inch floppy drive!
I do kind of miss integer basic & 6502 assembly.
The good??? old days
jdb
I was only 12 when my folks bought me my CoCo 2 in 1986, but I lived on that thing. And I still can't think of what the heck I did on it those first few years since I didn't even get a modem until 1989. I guess programming for the most part since I didn't have many games.
I never used a Timex Sinclair or a Commodore 64, but I did pick-up an Apple II and a Commodore Amiga 500 years ago. Both were already legacy hardware when I got them, but I'm a nut for classic computing. I guess this is why enjoy Linux so much, because it reminds me of the simpler days when you could get under the hood and really tinker with the system.
Being a DBA and working in a Microsoft shop I pretty much live in Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Console, and people always scratch their heads when they see my color schema of lime text on a black background... I'll take what I can get from those days
Sam
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