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Yeah, but back then Atari had the best chess game and graphics.

I remember going over to a friend's house who had a Commadore 64. Remember those? I think the screen for text was like 40 spaces wide and you couldn't tell the difference between the letter "B" and the number "8".

Originally posted by arrakis
Yeah, but back then Atari had the best chess game and graphics.

I remember going over to a friend's house who had a Commadore 64. Remember those? I think the screen for text was like 40 spaces wide and you couldn't tell the difference between the letter "B" and the number "8".

Now was Atari before the BBC trade test transmissions? Before a white block moved up and down playing tennis on a home game? Who remembers the trade test colour transmissions? The bloke in the motor boat going down the strange couloured river? Or am I dead?

BBC 2 Only too!

Originally posted by arrakis
Actually, it reminded me of the graphics on my TRS-80 back in 1980. You couldn't tell a male from a female, or even a person from a tree with those graphics. 😕

But they already had great ASCII art back then! My father sometimes printed out some stuff a colleague of him had done, and we brought it to school to hang it up in the classroom. No pawn, though. 😉

Originally posted by Nordlys
But they already had great ASCII art back then! My father sometimes printed out some stuff a colleague of him had done, and we brought it to school to hang it up in the classroom. No pawn, though. 😉

I'll bet your dad had an Apple computer. Am I right? They were very popular back then.

Originally posted by arrakis
I'll bet your dad had an Apple computer. Am I right? They were very popular back then.

Considering that he always got a Siemens calendar, I am guessing that he probably had a Siemens computer, too, although I could be wrong. The only computer I really remember from his workplace was a Cray. Nice to sit on. 😉

Originally posted by Nordlys
Considering that he always got a Siemens calendar, I am guessing that he probably had a Siemens computer, too, although I could be wrong. The only computer I really remember from his workplace was a Cray. Nice to sit on. 😉

Wow! Your dad worked with a Cray!? That's amazing. Was he a scientist?

Originally posted by Nordlys
But they already had great ASCII art back then! My father sometimes printed out some stuff a colleague of him had done, and we brought it to school to hang it up in the classroom. No pawn, though. 😉

A horse's head no doubt! Which was written on cobol by my uncle Colin Riley! The 1st ASCii pcture creator. Back in 1968!

Originally posted by mikelom
A horse's head no doubt!

It was indeed! A Cray 1-M.

Originally posted by Nordlys
It was indeed! A Cray 1-M.

Damn! And when I was 2 I thought it was a Palameno.

Originally posted by Crowley
I never thought I would have to say this:
Please stop posting ASCII porn!

after reading this, i tried googling 'ascii porn'. there's a lot. someone even ascii'd a whole movie... ok, dibble, move on.

Originally posted by Officer Dibble
after reading this, i tried googling 'ascii porn'. there's a lot. someone even ascii'd a whole movie... ok, dibble, move on.

Some people have nothing but time on their hands.

Edit: Those are the people who post here the most! 😵

Originally posted by arrakis
Some people have nothing but time on their hands.

Edit: Those are the people who post here the most! 😵

Hey! I didn't look at that many of the pictures!

Originally posted by reader1107
Hey! I didn't look at that many of the pictures!

I actually found an ascii version of Botticelli's Venus, so I consider it a cultural experience. 😉

Originally posted by Ian68
I actually found an ascii version of Botticelli's Venus, so I consider it a cultural experience. 😉

Yeah! Um, that's what I was looking at!