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HNDen21 commented on In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio newslttrs.com/yes-in-the-... · Posted by u/spzb

makeset · a year ago

Then came a nifty upgrade called "LED control" which installed a red LED next to that screw so all you had to do was turn until it was brightest, significantly reducing ?LOAD ERROR. Good times.

HNDen21 · a year ago

Yep, there was also a program where a red line would be on your monitor and you had to turn the screw until the line was completely flat

HNDen21 commented on In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio newslttrs.com/yes-in-the-... · Posted by u/spzb

saltysalt · a year ago

I played games on a Commodore 64 from cassette tapes, in principal you could record games onto a blank cassette but it was very flaky. Good times though.

HNDen21 · a year ago

I did this all the time... even used a double cassette deck to make copies... azimuth was the problem if the heads were aligned different.. so you used a small screwdriver and the top of the cassette had a small opening, this is where you had to align the heads by listening till it didn't sound distorted.. fun times

HNDen21 commented on In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio newslttrs.com/yes-in-the-... · Posted by u/spzb

bpoyner · a year ago

This is great and I believe it. But saying your game would be loaded "after a few minutes" might be true for a small game. I had the Commodore 1541 floppy drive while my friend had the Commodore Datasette. The speed difference between these were huge. The floppy drive was around 300 bytes per second while the tape drive was around 50 bytes per second (3KB/minute). We would literally go outside to play while waiting on the tape drive.

HNDen21 · a year ago

That's why you needed it saved with Turbo. it was at least 10 times faster.. I used to have this cartridge... besides turbo it had some more things, it could grab a hardcopy of memory (ie if you were playing a game.. you could save it... and then load it later, it would be in the same state)

https://www.ami64.com/product-page/kcs-power-cartridge-c64

HNDen21 commented on European word translator: an interactive map ukdataexplorer.com/europe... · Posted by u/gnabgib

HNDen21 · a year ago

She runs is translated as she walks in several languages....should be ona trči in Croatian and ze rent in Dutch (German is also translated as she walks)

HNDen21 commented on The Fertility Crisis – highlights from the comments section ronghosh.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/paulpauper

HNDen21 · a year ago

For most people it costs to have kids... for some it pays.... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27712032/

HNDen21 commented on Alain Delon has died theguardian.com/film/arti... · Posted by u/xnhbx

HNDen21 · 2 years ago

First movie I saw with him was Borsalino... Jean-Paul Belmondo was in it as well

It's been a while, I should rewatch it

HNDen21 commented on Why Bridges Don't Sink practical.engineering/blo... · Posted by u/chmaynard

VWWHFSfQ · 2 years ago

Ken Burns' documentary [0] about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge was really fascinating discussing the innovative (at the time, late 19th century) engineering methods and challenges. It's pretty short, only 1 hour. Highly recommended.

]0] https://kenburns.com/films/brooklyn-bridge/

HNDen21 · 2 years ago

Read this a few years back.. highly recommended

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Bridge-Story-Building-Brooklyn/...

Posted by u/HNDen21 2 years ago

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HNDen21 commented on 20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a new revolution tuta.com/blog/gmail-20-ye... · Posted by u/dotcoma

wredue · 2 years ago

Gmail was unlimited space, and invite only in the early days.

The main reason for success was that Google was still generally seen as a not evil company, while other mail providers were garbage/evil.

HNDen21 · 2 years ago

I remember those, you got 5 of them... later Google Wave also had invites .. which was cool but ended up in the graveyard anyway... Lifehacker's Gina Trapani even wrote a guide to Google Wave but I believe Wave was killed right before after it was published

HNDen21 commented on 20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a new revolution tuta.com/blog/gmail-20-ye... · Posted by u/dotcoma

pilaf · 2 years ago

> It was just a very good client that worked well but roughly the same as people were already used to.

UI-wise, yes, but GMail was also the first mainstream "AJAX" [1] app. Before it the expectation was that clicking on almost anything on the page would cause a full page refresh. GMail was in part revolutionary because of how snappy it felt for a webmail client.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)

HNDen21 · 2 years ago

I remember using OWA (Outlook Web Access) before that.. but you are right this is the one that stands out..... soon after this Digg was created and the onslaught of all the web 2.0 sites like delicious, flickr etc etc

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