bouche Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Does anyone remember this computer from highschool? The Unisys ICON I created a version of Hangman complete with stickman graphix and a library of 100+ words to guess at in grade 10 or 11. I can't remember which. Anyway, alot of my free time was spent on these computers playing a game called Northwest Fur Traders. Does anyone remember that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakis Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 I had this in elementary school. I loved cross country canada, mathmaze and offshore fisher!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 My high school had a single DEC LSI-11 minicomputer, with several (6 or 8, IIRC) VT-100 terminals and DECWriter III console; the first year I got my hands on it, it was running RT-11 (mostly programmed in BASIC coded up on mark-sense cards); it was later upgraded to the multi-user, multi-tasking TSX-Plus operating system, programmed by students mostly in WATFOR-11S (a variant on the FORTRAN programming language, produced by the University of Waterloo), coded both on mark-sense cards and later by editing code on the terminals.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 JEOMK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 I mustn't have enjoyed computers at all when I was in school (not much has changed). All I remember using them for was Print Shop and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ersh Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 You bet! I recall always trying to get to some kind of restricted area on the computer that I guess I thought had all kinds of secret codes or something. Or the teacher's answer book or something. Maybe I just watched Wargames too many times. Here's the other computer we always had in the back of the class... mainly for playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego or Westward Ho. The Commodore Pet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Who's got my heady Logo emulator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted December 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 My high school had a single DEC LSI-11 minicomputer, with several (6 or 8, IIRC) VT-100 terminals and DECWriter III console; the first year I got my hands on it, it was running RT-11 (mostly programmed in BASIC coded up on mark-sense cards); it was later upgraded to the multi-user, multi-tasking TSX-Plus operating system, programmed by students mostly in WATFOR-11S (a variant on the FORTRAN programming language, produced by the University of Waterloo), coded both on mark-sense cards and later by editing code on the terminals.Aloha, Brad Bradm's high school computer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Who's got my heady Logo emulator?I actually downloaded one last week. Fuckin' memories! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberHippie Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 I totally remember those Icon computers. We didn't get to use it much though. I remember very quickly figuring out how to IM other students in the class. It was so ahead of it's time!Before that, the TRS80! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Bradm's high school computer: Close. The first computer my Dad used was the IBM 1401, circa 1960, which was about the same time (certainly the same era) as the NCR 390. It was the first computer his employer got, and he told me about being in the loading dock of the building when it was delivered (and almost seeing it fall of the forklift). Aloha, Brad P.S. Get off my lawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Before that, the TRS80!Trash 80. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Drug addicts in this thread? I think not. All I see are nerds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForbinHood Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted December 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Drug addicts in this thread? I think not. All I see are nerds.-2 charisma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 i still use my sincliar zx-81 ... as a doorstop. sadly, my coleco adam has gone to the great computer graveyard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewie Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGEVgbfaPbA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-towns Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Drug addicts in this thread? I think not. All I see are nerds.hahahhahahahahahah.Old balls burn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Here's what I used in my high school computing class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted December 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 that's the note that Bradm sent to a chick in the third row! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakis Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Booche/Bouche bros. hilarious confirmed. Nero get back together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_rawk Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Holy fack, this thread got me hard. This is (a reasonable approximation of ..) my first love. As happens to all of us who keep on keeping on, eventually we outlive those who made a difference in our lives. RIP, my sweety. (Also: I remember getting in trouble for 'hacking' the school computer by doing the equivalent of this on a C64 - 10 print "my name " 20 goto 10) Funny how I now feel the urge to put a semi-colon after those lines. And thread title be damned, I was in public school at best. Shit, you guys are old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 I think this is what we used in 89-90. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\/\/illy Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 I used and wrote programs on the the ICON and the PET but this was the first personal computer that I had at home: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_rawk Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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