POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Computers are fast : Re: Reminiscences of an Old Fart Server Time
5 Sep 2024 09:23:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reminiscences of an Old Fart  
From: Stefan Viljoen
Date: 17 Nov 2009 13:26:04
Message: <4b02eabc@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:

> TC wrote:
>> This was a C64-program that played a tune on your floppy by repositioning
>> the read/write head.
> 
> I wrote a program once that you could set a radio on the console and it
> would play music with the interference from the bus lines.  You know, back
> in the days when instructions ran at roughly the speed of AM radio
> wavelengths. :-)
 
I consider THAT hardcore.

I remember how my dad cursed when he found out the Apple interfered 
precisely on his ham radio frequencies.

No, he never bother to try shielding it, we got a IBM PC next. As I remember 
it was still noisy in the ham bands but much less than the Apple was.
-- 
Stefan Viljoen


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.