In 1980 I bought a Pet2001, sponsored by grandma, with a green screen. The older ones at the university were still grey. You had to be very patient because even small programs could take two minutes to load. I sold it sometime later and I lost track of it. 25 years later I visited the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, Germany, and found out that the Pet they had was actually mine. That was quite exciting to see it again. How did I recognize it? At some point, I wrote my initials with a pen onto the chassis. The letters were still there.
We had a computer room in the library at UMass in the late 70's with about 20 terminals that would hook up with acoustic modems. A dumb game we played a couple of times was to go in there late at night, turn on all the modems, turn off the lights, and then whistle and see how many of them would light up in response. Nerds? Yep. But better was the one late night my engineer girlfriend and I hauled the sole 102 lb. Decwriter from our dorm computer room (I was an RA so I had a key) onto the elevator and rolled it into up to my room and hooked it up to the university computer at 300 baud (again with an acoustice I thought "Wow - It doesn't get any better than this."
Thats his camera out of sync with screen. can be a real pain to get it right. People like LGR and so on use a somewhat expensive cam that can be set to match and take that effect away. its not a strobe effect like you can get but thats what is doing it. im pretty sure.
Not the monitor being out of sync. Looks to me like it only starts once the program is running, which strongly suggests to me that the flickering is caused by what is generally known as "the killer poke" being in the software. Have a quick read up on it, it works as a way to speed up these early PETs but does have screen flickering as a side effect.
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In 1980 I bought a Pet2001, sponsored by grandma, with a green screen. The older ones at the university were still grey.
You had to be very patient because even small programs could take two minutes to load.
I sold it sometime later and I lost track of it.
25 years later I visited the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, Germany, and found out that the Pet they had was actually mine.
That was quite exciting to see it again. How did I recognize it? At some point, I wrote my initials with a pen onto the chassis.
The letters were still there.
that's amazing!
We had a computer room in the library at UMass in the late 70's with about 20 terminals that would hook up with acoustic modems. A dumb game we played a couple of times was to go in there late at night, turn on all the modems, turn off the lights, and then whistle and see how many of them would light up in response. Nerds? Yep. But better was the one late night my engineer girlfriend and I hauled the sole 102 lb. Decwriter from our dorm computer room (I was an RA so I had a key) onto the elevator and rolled it into up to my room and hooked it up to the university computer at 300 baud (again with an acoustice I thought "Wow - It doesn't get any better than this."
These are lovely stories. Thank you so much for sharing.
Great story
I remember doing that same thing with my dad on the family's PET 2001-8 . . . in 1977.
love it. I ran a BBS on a 64 and later on an st as well. love those days
Love seeing PETTERM being loaded off a cassette and used with a real modem, especially an acoustic coupler.
Awesome, thanks for sharing! I don’t miss acoustic couplers one little bit.
Fantastic very nice to see the pet connect to bbs may ask is it possible now dsl telephone lines?
*Protovision, I Have You Now*
But how we could ever confirm if somebody had recieved the massage, is the pots phone line emulated on the todays digital phoneline?
Be careful with a game called "Global Thermal Nuclear War!"
I also remembered the game "global thermal nuclear war" lol ;-)
This is very cool :D
It's actually a Texas Instruments Geneve BBS
Did man discover fire after the PET computer? heheh LOL lmao just kidding. :)
Why is the monitor flickering so much?
Thats his camera out of sync with screen. can be a real pain to get it right. People like LGR and so on use a somewhat expensive cam that can be set to match and take that effect away. its not a strobe effect like you can get but thats what is doing it. im pretty sure.
Not the monitor being out of sync. Looks to me like it only starts once the program is running, which strongly suggests to me that the flickering is caused by what is generally known as "the killer poke" being in the software. Have a quick read up on it, it works as a way to speed up these early PETs but does have screen flickering as a side effect.
That BBS has the characteristic bad spelling of today.
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
05:10 TYPO: One *momet...*
It’s not a typo, if you read throughout the video there’s lots of these “typos”
It’s just lost data due to line quality
computer from starwars