Timeline for Commercially-available modern computers with retro characteristics?
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| May 24, 2021 at 17:24 | comment | added | Will Hartung | @scruss It's kind of funny when I think about it. On the one hand, as someone who mostly just wrote programs, the cassette based systems weren't that slow as saving and loading from cassette was the exception, not the norm. As long as the system was stable, there was little need to save the code to cassette. In contrast to disk based systems where we were constantly loading and unloading programs, thus their impact, while faster, was felt all the time. Mind, at the same time, waiting 45m to load Telengard from cassette was a horror on it's own level. | |
| May 24, 2021 at 17:07 | comment | added | scruss | “its performance (or lack there of)”: just wait 'til you try a cassette-based system! I guess this could be a race to the bottom with teletype/paper tape users saying that we cassette users don't know we're born, since paper tape was even slower, left little bits of crap everywhere and was a great source of paper cuts | |
| Jun 13, 2020 at 7:09 | comment | added | occipita | RC2014 is interesting because it's physical hardware (not an FPGA or similar) that can still be reconfigured well enough that it can be used to run programs designed for a wide variety of systems, e.g. with an add-on board using a TMS9918 it can be made to run software designed for ColecoVision or MSX systems (as well as some other less popular ones that used similar hardware). | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 20:36 | comment | added | bobeff | Just for reference their official site: rc2014.co.uk | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 17:03 | history | answered | Will Hartung | CC BY-SA 4.0 |