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Re: Apple 1
Try deperately, but ultimately failing to sound intelligent, Mark C Spaeth
said...
>
>In article <34CD18E0.5749C275@pcpros.net>, Noah Vail <jtous@pcpros.net>
wrote:
>)Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>)) wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith) writes:
>)) )On 14 Jan 1998 07:51:34 GMT, "FredEE" <fred_lisa_nospam@sprynet.com)
>)) )|)IMSAI in the movie "War Games".
>)) )hehehehe... is THAT what they used for the WOPPER? <evil grin)
>)) No, they used the IMSAI as the computer that sat on Matthew Broderick's
desk.
>)If I remember right, the WOPPR was a big hulking thing with one
>)tiny screen for the launch countdown.
>)Now, I could be wrong, but it had very large letters that were about,
>)let's say... 22 characters across. I wonder if it had 3.5K RAM and the
>)ability to run Omega Race?
>
>It didn't have the vector display and buttons needed to play omega race :)
>
No, a 3k machine with a 22column display was the commodore vic20. It played
omega race as well as a bunch of other "catridge" games.
smentzer@ecom.net
- References:
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- Re: Apple 1
- From: wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)
- Re: Apple 1
- From: Cameron Kaiser <cdkaiser@delete.these.four.words.concentric.net>
- Re: Apple 1
- From: Noah Vail <jtous@pcpros.net>
- Re: Apple 1
- From: mspaeth@mit.edu (Mark C Spaeth)