Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Kids react to old computers Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 13:59:06 +1000 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <260520140955077061%michelle@michelle.org> <270520140853439814%YourName@YourISP.com> <1lmczwv.82ltww8m6bzbN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <1lmdffk.yb292zewl08dN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <290520140858229166%YourName@YourISP.com> <080720140917079698%YourName@YourISP.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 33FygZHfHMCga3droKbyiwR1igKq3p1TDz+YIX9nzNI7l1qBw= Cancel-Lock: sha1:gmqLOtze6N1Mf6FZS9H32kwxSxI= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:37900 comp.sys.mac.system:62079 Walter Bushell wrote > Your Name wrote >> That would be from tape. Use the disk version >> in a disk drive and it would load faster. > > Disk drives in those days cost serious money. Same price as the C64 itself. >> Castle Wolfenstein (the original, not the much later silly 3D-erised >> nonsense) used to take about five minutes to load on the Apple ][ from >> disk ... sometimes you then got killed after three minutes playing and >> have to wait for it to load all over again. (Thank goodness for the >> Turbo Boost mode on the Apple ][ emulator!)