The "Anything Goes" thread

[KevinJS]

In it's day, Easyscript was one hell of a word processor, and it ran in 8kilobytes. That's 8192 bytes for those having trouble believing that.

No bloatware there.

 

[scifan57]

I remember paying almost $100.00 for a 4K memory chip for my pocket computer back in the late 70’s.

 

[nathan the ipad lover]

Yeah, computers were great back in the early 80s and the late 90s

A Commodore 64 a day keeps the Apple II away!

 

[zstairlessone]

I recently got to play with a computer running MS-DOS and an old 16 bit version of windows. Strange, difficult and limited, but much more efficient use of the processing power available. I see now the draw into the PC world of all night programming and hacking/cracking, I felt I was in direct communication and control of the PC while in DOS. Got to use an assembler and wrote a couple of low level programs - too cool. Nathan, glad you are keeping this part of our past alive.

 

[Richard Brown]

For those of us who enjoy historical aircraft in the UK.

The Lancaster Bomber will be flying from RAF Scampton Lincs to Biggin Hill Kent. She should arrive by noon today.

Sent from my iPad using iPF

 

[nathan the ipad lover]

I recently got to play with a computer running MS-DOS and an old 16 bit version of windows. Strange, difficult and limited, but much more efficient use of the processing power available. I see now the draw into the PC world of all night programming and hacking/cracking, I felt I was in direct communication and control of the PC while in DOS. Got to use an assembler and wrote a couple of low level programs - too cool. Nathan, glad you are keeping this part of our past alive.

I'm glad too! I own a C64 that still works, and I am glad to do so!

A Commodore 64 a day keeps the Apple II away!

 

[J. A.]

Stéphane Vetter, APOD

 

[scifan57]

<img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=41611"/>

Stéphane Vetter, APOD

Great picture, is it from Iceland?

 

[J. A.]

Great picture, is it from Iceland?

Yes, it is.

 

[scifan57]

Yes, it is.

Is it the Godafoss waterfall?

 

[J. A.]

Is it the Godafoss waterfall?

Yes. It's today's APOD. Did you know that waterfall before?

 

[J. A.]

This one was in the Star Walk app today:





Credit: ESO/José Francisco Salgado

 

[scifan57]

Yes. It's today's APOD. Did you know that waterfall before?

I had a summer view of it as my home screen wallpaper a while back.

 

[J. A.]

I had a summer view of it as my home screen wallpaper a while back.

I was surprised to see you asking. I thought you have the NASA app, too.

 

[scifan57]

I was surprised to see you asking. I thought you have the NASA app, too.

I do, but I haven't used it for a few days.