tincup wrote:a Melcor 2000 if I remember correctly. I was blown away by the "brain"..
My old red-LED programmable RPN National Semiconductor calculator was really something else 😀 Heh, I even programmed a simple grid-guessing game with it 😀
Hehe, classmates would ask me to use my **Reverse Polish Notation** calculator, and then ask "WHERE'S THE EQUALS KEY AT???!!!" 🤣!
tincup wrote:Let's face it, we were still making copies with carbon paper and hand operated Mimeograph machines with that blue/purple text..
Not to mention dot-matrix printers... companies/folks who need wide carriage printers that can print using above-said tractor-feed carbon paper.
konc wrote:They used to take a screenshot of the desktop with icons and everything and set it as the background. Then they hid the real icons and the user was trying furiously to click on the background 😀
Hehe, I'm reminded of a prank I pulled on a few of my buddies years back:
I PhotoShopped (or rather, NeoPainted) a screenshot of Norton Commander... both of my buddies ran Norton Commander, and their wives were familiar with the program and it's uses as well.
In the edited pic I created a whole bunch of, ehhemm, "questionable" looking directories... "XXXPORN", "BIGBUTTS", "GSTRINGS", "HARDCORE", "XXXGIFS" etc..., and then created a self-displaying EXE of the image using; what the heck was it(?); oh yeah... Graphic Workshop for DOS.
Sneaked the EXE on to their PCs, and added it to their AUTOEXEC.BAT files so that the picture would display when their PCs booted (requiring a keypress to skip the self-displaying image) 🤣! 😀
HEHE, both of my buddies told me later that their wives were about ready to kill them when they powered up their PCs 🤣!!