Re: remembering the early days 2005-06-10 - By elsiget
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Amigas didn't use Tape drives, the Pet, Vic20, C64 and C128 did though...
(I think all of them had standard MC tape drives, possibly some of
them were cartridge only though)...
My brother had a C64 with an added 5.25 floppy drive, before that he
had a Phillips something(think it had a number for a name)...
Anyway,
the first Amiga was the Amiga 1000, and it came with a 3.5 floppy
drive, no support for 1.4 Mb disks though, only the old 880k...
Then came the Amiga 500 and 2000 in 1987, the 500 could have an
external hard drive fastened on the side, and was simply a slightly
large keyboard, kind of like the C64 and C128...
Then the 3000, which had a 68040 processor(14Mhz if I remember
correctly) and 2Mb of RAM, and like the 2000 had SCSI for hard drives
(My brother still has a bunch of .5GB SCSI disks lying around)...
Then there was the crappy CDTV, which isn't worthwhile talking about...
Then came the 600 and 1200 which had the same design as the 500, but
they had internal hard drives, the 1200 twice the RAM of the 600, not
sure about the CPU clocking...
The 4000 came out the same year and had 18 MB of RAM, don't know the
frequency of the CPU, but it was simply a powered up 3000...
Lastly the CD32 system came out in 93, but was no big success, but
more so than the CDTV...
Anyway, I'm a big Amiga fan, mostly due to my brother being an Amiga
developer, and was going to have a game released by the company that
made Fat Man, but development halted during beta...
A screenshot from the game was featured in an Amiga magazine though...
And you can find disk images of demos coded by my brother("Uninvited")
for FraXioN (or whatever the capitalization of that group was (it was
a scene group(you know as in "The Scene")))...
--- In Carrara@(protected), "Doug Schafer" <ds-mail@(protected)> wrote:
> Since we started a small discussion on the old stuff...
>
> Carrara had no chance on the early computers I used...
>
> At work our mainframe Engineering computer had 4K of RAM (yup that's
right
> 4K) and I made and sorted punch cards; no monitors, only line printer
> printouts and lights. Coded programs in FORTRAN or machine
language...about
> 1964. By 1970 50mb hard disks for graphics apps were the size of a
clothes
> washer, weighed the same, and required air conditioning....run from a
> central mainframe.
>
> My first real computer at home was years later...an HP 100: had touch
> screen, B&W, 8K RAM, no hard drive, dual 5.25 floppies (cost about $1500
> just for the dual drives)...kept program on one disk and data on
other disk.
> Dot matrix printer and I converted a daisy wheel typewriter to print
text.
> IBM PC was not invented yet. Had an Amiga too but don't even
remember much
> about it anymore except program input was a tape drive and output
was to a
> B&W TV....graphics were BASIC, program your own 2D straight lines and
> motion. "Pong" like.
> The big move up was to a 386DX2, win3.1, hard disk, color, and GUI.
>
> Feeling pretty modern today with XP, dual monitors, 2GB, P4 3.2, 256mb
> video....but expect in 5 years this will seem primitive again.
> I prefer the color and dynamics/speed/real-time of today....as
available in
> Carrara and Hex.
>
> Doug.S
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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