into vintage computing since 2008 i only got my 286 in 2013 and been
:) My first PC was a 12mhz 286 PC in 1992, with a Hercules monochrome monitor. I got a 2400 baud modem with it and started calling BBSes right away. I really enjoyed it. I got a VGA graphics card & monitor months later, and my 12-year-old self was really excited. I remember also getting a Sound Blaster card for that PC at some point, because soon
after getting the VGA card & monitor, I was playing Wolfenstein 3D on
that PC, complete with color graphics and sound..
Nightfox wrote to mary4 <=-
:) My first PC was a 12mhz 286 PC in 1992, with a Hercules monochrome monitor.
:) My first PC was a 12mhz 286 PC in 1992, with a Hercules monochrome
monitor.
Amber or Green?
That was the first political computer debate I recall, which phosphors were the True Phosphors.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-
:) My first PC was a 12mhz 286 PC in 1992, with a Hercules monochrome monitor.
Amber or Green?
That was the first political computer debate I recall, which
phosphors were the True Phosphors.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-
:) My first PC was a 12mhz 286 PC in 1992, with a Herculesmonochrome
monitor.
Amber or Green?
That was the first political computer debate I recall, which
phosphors were the True Phosphors.
Amber!
:) My first PC was a 12mhz 286 PC in 1992, with a Hercules monochrome monitor. I got a 2400 baud modem with it and started calling BBSes right away. I really enjoyed it. I got a VGA graphics card & monitor months later, and my 12-year-old self was really excited. I remember also getting a Sound Blaster card for that PC at some point, because soon
after getting the VGA card & monitor, I was playing Wolfenstein 3D on
that PC, complete with color graphics and sound..
My first computer had Hercules graphics with amber CRT.
All of the computers in the lab had amber CRT's too.
I mainly saw green CRT's with the IBM MDA video.
It seemed to me that amber was brighter, thus easier to read.
While I was working at the college library, all of our dumb terminals were amber. Most all of the computers were also. Later, I worked for a couple of years at a company that had an AS400 and all of those terminals (dumb and PC) were usually green.
I would have to agree that, on the PCs, the amber seemed brighter.
Green all the way for me -- amber was the color of dirty, dim ADM3a terminals in the computer lab.
Green all the way for me -- amber was the color of dirty, dim ADM3a terminals in the computer lab. My computer, a hopped-up 286 clone with custom clock crystal and 287 math coprocessor powered a herculesoooooooooooooooooooo i like creen as it is the og color of the pc! amber is nice too <3
graphics card and a greenscreen monitor.
When I think of college, I think of typing quietly on a soft, rubbery keyboard in a dark dorm room lit only by a desk lamp. Green phosphors turned down, my roommate was either fast asleep or completely failing to get it on with the girl he was friendzoned by.
I was either writing code with Turbo C or dialed into a VAX on campus.
I was either writing code with Turbo C or dialed into a VAX on campus.
Green all the way for me -- amber was the color of dirty, dim ADM3a terminals in the computer lab. My computer, a hopped-up 286 clone with custom clock crystal and 287 math coprocessor powered a hercules graphics card and a greenscreen monitor.
tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Hey now; don't mock the ADM3a. Those were actually pretty
sweet.
Skylar wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Which campus? I spent a lot of time dialed into the VAX at the
University of AR at Little Rock. The campus had 2400 baud modems but my modem was 1200 baud. That's just one of the reasons that I preferred to hang out in one of the computer labs.
tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Hey now; don't mock the ADM3a. Those were actually pretty
sweet.
You know I'd gut an ADM3a in a minute, install a single board computer
and hook up one of those chunky Logitech serial mice...
Hey now; don't mock the ADM3a. Those were actually pretty
sweet.
You know I'd gut an ADM3a in a minute, install a single board computer
and hook up one of those chunky Logitech serial mice...
San Francisco State University. This was early on, mid-80s. No internet (yet).
Lots of those ADM3a terminals in 3 computer labs.
4 hardwired ports and 6 ports hooked up to a dial-up port selector.
I started using UALR's VAX in 1986. UALR got on BITNET in 1988, I think, and then was the second university in the state to get Internet in 1990.
Lots of those ADM3a terminals in 3 computer labs.
In the mid-to-late 80s, UALR had two computer labs for VAX access with VT220 terminals. Their VAX was a cluster of four 11/780s.
4 hardwired ports and 6 ports hooked up to a dial-up port selector.
Yikes. There were VT220 terminals all over UALR, as the system was used for both administrative work and academic classes. I want to say there
are 24 modems, although I my memory could be way off. There were
certainly more than 6. Those same phone lines/modems were used to access the BBS, although the BBS could only be accessed on one of the trunk lines.
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