This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: First Test Posting...
Article: 7856 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: First Test Posting... Message-ID: D8z0In.Ivu@exeter.ac.uk From: cs92dy@dcs.exeter.ac.uk (D.Young) Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 08:20:47 GMT Sender: news@exeter.ac.uk (news admin) Organization: Computer Unit, University of Exeter, UK Approved: The King of the Potato People In-Reply-To: chrome@Wolfe.NET's message of 19 May 1995 08:28:04 GMT Lines: 32 Status: RO
In article <3phkql$2n7@news1.wolfe.net> chrome@Wolfe.NET (Chrome) writes: Just a test post to see if my theory is right :) It depends what the theory was ObHack: Back in the 'Old Days' wrote up an 80 column screen driver for Atari 8-bitters. Lovely slow bitmapped screens. What, you mean like Windoze... -- | chrome@wolfe.net My opinions are my own | | http://www.wolfe.net/~chrome Noone else seems to want them | | >>R.A.T. #1, Co-founder of the Institute of Reality Avoidance Therapy<< | | ...don't ask me/I'm just improvising/my illusion of careless flight... | ObHack: Notice that on the mother board of my sqintel machine the difference between 33 and 40 MHz was just one jumper. Small bodge with old LED cable and the redundant keyclock became a clock speed changer. The best bit was that you just have to write a 'C' infront of where it says 'LOCK' to label the switch. While I was inside anyway the silly clock speed LED (now wrong most of the time anyway) was changed to slightly robotic smilies... |-] and |-[ for fast and slow (2 1/2 digit LED). Dave.
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