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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:57 pm
by FrancisHarmany
Zer wrote:astroman wrote:ahhh, a flashback from those happy days when
peek & poke ruled the Commodore 64 and the Apple ][

could we have ever imagined to where those modems would eventually drive us ?
cheers, Tom

We always did...they are driving us mad
mad is an understatement, I am just glad they are quiet about it these days!
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:25 pm
by astroman
stardust wrote:but the basic was soooo slow with the peek and poke.

did you already forget the clockrate ?
it was
1 Megahertz

that was 3000 times lower than your current Pentium
imho that stuff was blazingly fast ...
clock your box down accordingly to get a taste of reality how that supa-supa prog is performing...
cheers, Tom
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:07 am
by spoimala