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  1. i will keep track by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny · on Which Desktop Distro Will Die First?

    this is a very, very good question, which distro will die first. a really good question.

    in the interest of answering the question, i will keep track of the various distros under deathwatch on my amiga work station.

    i will enter their information on my OS/2 database.

    everyone can view the results, as they are tabulated, on my minix server.

    again, this is a good question and a very important one! we shall watch the distros die! and i will give the winner, the one who predicts the order of death, a genuine TRS-80 Color Computer!

    (note the details for the '12th Annual "Last" Chicago COCO Fest May 17-18th, 2003' on the link... wtf?! a TRS-80 Color Computer fest in 2003?! WOW! i started this post as a flippant jaded joke and i find myself in dumbfounded amazement ;-P )

  2. Re:Emulators? by ncc74656 · · Score: 2 · on Tandys Never Die
    My first PC was a non-portable version of the Trash 80, the Tandy Color Computer 3. The CoCo 3, as it was lovingly called came with a new fangled version of the Tandy/MS BASIC called Extended Color Basic, with advanced features such as color output, lowercase characters (WOW NOW I CAN WRITE BASIC THAT WILL OUTPUT IN LOWERCASE TOO?!?! W00T!) and a eye-killing nuclear green screen with a unique, wild cursor. Very wild layout compared with the calm CLIs of today.

    I liked the dual-monitor CoCo that was linked on your page...now that's a hack. The choice of graphics chip was interesting (said by someone who has a TI-99/4A and a CoCo 2, among other machines). Who says you need new hardware to do that? :-)

  3. Re:Emulators? by PyroMosh · · Score: 1 · on Tandys Never Die

    Yes, Virginia, there are Tandy emulators. My first PC was a non-portable version of the Trash 80, the Tandy Color Computer 3. The CoCo 3, as it was lovingly called came with a new fangled version of the Tandy/MS BASIC called Extended Color Basic, with advanced features such as color output, lowercase characters (WOW NOW I CAN WRITE BASIC THAT WILL OUTPUT IN LOWERCASE TOO?!?! W00T!) and a eye-killing nuclear green screen with a unique, wild cursor. Very wild layout compared with the calm CLIs of today.

  4. Re:Wondering which was first... by zonker · · Score: 0 · on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

    Of course there's also the Tandy CoCo... =)

  5. But I don't have any bookmarks! by IO+ERROR · · Score: 2 · on A New Tack In Search Engine Formulation
    I am sure I can't be the only person out there who rarely or never uses bookmarks! Hm, I've had this browser config for a year now, and I've accumulated a grand total of three bookmarks. Now since I found all of these through other means, what good is a new search engine? Now I know there are people who put practically every site they've ever visited in their bookmarks (which makes it surprising this site doesn't seem to have any porn) but I only bookmark things I want to find instantly six months from now, or things I might forget to look at otherwise.
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  6. Re:Haiku by fatboy · · Score: 1 · on VIC20 As Wap Client

    "Trash-80" ??? I don't really know of any of the 8-bit machines that came close to the multi-user, muti-tasking ability of the TRS-80 Color Computer 1/2/3 with the OS-9 Operating System. We poked fun at 386's running Desqview :)

  7. Hey! by Pike · · Score: 2 · on Mac OS X, XML, and Aqua

    Who else hear thinks of the TRS-80 when you hear OS/9 ? The famed UNIX lookalike for the Color Computer. I liked their version numbers: Level I and Level II. I'd like to see an Ars Technica retrocomputing article about OS/9 sometime....

    JD

  8. Ah, the TRS-80! CoCo III ! by Pike · · Score: 3 · on B. Gates Rants About Software Copyrights - in 1980

    Wow, who can forget the Tandy Color Computer III? That thing was nifty...or it was when I was ten years old and just learning programming. That thing had analog inputs, so you could even do video editing on it. MS Disk- BASIC v1.1 and the 512K of ram. That thing was fast too...of course having the OS/programming language in ROM and almost never having to do disk i/o helped. I won't deny I played a lot of games on that thing...but I wrote most of them :-)

    I still remember the last issue of Rainbow mag. It had dwindled from a spacious glossy color magazine to a small newsprint production. What a sinking feeling I got...oh well. After that my CoCo went unused, and I spent all my time learning DOS, C++, and how to use a BBS. The world was bigger then.

    My Opa still has programs on his Acer laptop that he copied from the CoCo. How? He spliced together a mutant serial cable and did a straight dump through the port using a terminal program! He had to do some fiddling on the CoCo copy program to keep it from dropping characters, but now the programs are all safely migrated to GW-BASIC (!!) He is amazing...he still writes database programs in GW-BASIC that take up three to five floppies, including data files! Somehow the 640k limitations of DOS are powerless to stop him.

    The 80's were quite a decade. I can still remember that bright, flashing cursor against that ugly nuclear green background. Oh well, it's the nineties and the world has moved on...whoops I guess we're in the aughts or the naughties or the 00's or whatever.

    JD

  9. I still miss Rainbow Magazine by timbu · · Score: 1 · on Are Computer Magazines Dead?

    This is no great loss to me.

    The real loss was when Rainbow Magazine stopped publishing.

    Some of you may remember this magazine which was geared towards the TRS-80 Color Computer.

    I miss magazines that actually have machine language source code that you can type in yourself and run.

    If you have the urge to fire up your old TRS-80 now, check out this website TRS-80 Homepage