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  1. Re:WOPR II? by houghi · · Score: 1 · on An AI Is Playing Pictionary To Figure Out How the World Works (technologyreview.com)

    Well, it was not on the list https://pc-museum.com/046-imsa...

    (But neither was tic tac toe)

  2. Re:It is all about resolution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The 5-Year Console Cycle Is Dead

    Heck, forgot Biplanes (and TeleNova Compis/CP/M Top Gun which I can't find a screenshot off :)

    Anyway, point was: Graphics not resolution.

  3. Re:Can US win a future war like it did in WW II? by blair1q · · Score: 1 · on How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks

    The only way to win that game is not to play.

  4. Concerto is even older by Soloact · · Score: 1 · on What to Seek in an Older Subnotebook?

    Don't forget about the Compaq Concerto, introduced in 1992, noted here in Rune's PC-Museum (scroll down to it) http://pc-museum.com/officewing.htm
    and an old 1994 review of the same http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1563/is_n2_v12/ai_15035428
    That is, if you're looking for one of the oldest subs.

  5. GridCase 1550sx had one too. by MDMurphy · · Score: 1 · on RollerMouse Aims to Replace the Traditional Mouse

    I used one of these years ago on a GridCase 1550sx. Police agencies used them at the time for installing inside cop cars. Heavy as hell, the cast magnesium cases appeared "bulletproof"

    At the time your other options for a laptop were a roller ball "side car" or a separate mouse, so something integrated with the keyboard footprint was handy.

    Pics here: http://pc-museum.com/officewing.htm

    Me, I'm happiest on a laptop with the Thinkpad style happy button.

  6. Re:TI-99/4A by skurk · · Score: 2, Funny · on Software Distribution By Vinyl

    My debut was on the Oric 1 back in 1983. Now, loading games from tape was pretty time consuming, but the Oric had an option that made it even slower.

    For those of you who ever tried an Oric, you may remember the default load command; CLOAD "". But if you prepended ",S" it would go into something called a slow mode. ON A CASSETTE.

    Loading "The Hobbit" in slow mode took about 25 minutes, and I'm not even kidding here. It was so slow that you could almost hear every bit and tell wether it was a cool game or not before typing "RUN".

  7. I must have had geek cred in spades by Skim123 · · Score: 1 · on Less Might Be More
    My Freshman year in high school (1993) I bought an old computer from my relatives, a Compaq portable computer - it looked like this, but was technologically superior as the Compaq had two 5.25" floppy drives. (And what a steal I got the computer for - my relatives dropped over $3,000 dollars in 1983 for that beast, and I paid them a mere $20 ten years later.)

    Anyway, I had fun with that cement block of a computer for a couple of months, wrote some games with the BASIC interpretter that came with whatever version of DOS, but eventually my eyes started bugging out from staring at the 4.5" black and green monochrome monitor, so I had to give it up. Fortunately my parents were, by that time, just a few short months away from buying a Packard Bell 486 DX/2! Oh joy.