RE: Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – OCT84.DOC
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Amazing report. I used to connect just for fun to a teletype software through modem to modern communication with my neighbor. We had a terminal to chat between other but that went away soon when we found out we could do the same with games. And we both love basketball, so a basketball game that also allowed you to "dial out" for a match.
We both owned a stylish Acer Aspire in the 90s was the coolest looking PC out there.
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I had two PCs in the 1990s (not counting my Commodore 64). Both were Gateway 2000s. One was a 486 and the other was a Pentium II. I loved those machines. The first one looked like this:
Oh yeah remember those days of upgrading your soundcard to a surround sound to play games. And that gimmicky "Turbo" button to "overclock" your processor.
Those were the days.
You know the turbo button was actually to decrease speed of your processor in order to play games that run on processing clock speed. The original button was to decrease speed of the processor but marketing believed it wouldn't sell the idea of slow down your machine. So they reversed the button and call it turbo keeping it always pressed until you need to play a game that rely on slower processing clock to be playable.
Interesting factoid. 😅
I always associated it to the Reebok Pumps.