I Bought the Computer from WarGames

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  @nedj10 · 8 months ago

  ahh Zork..those were the days

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• ST

  @stflaherty63 · 8 months ago

  Seeing kermit and xmodem in that directory listing brought back a lot of memories.

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• DV

  @dvusmedia · 4 years ago

  This video is kinda nostalgic for me. <br><br>Two anecdotes: 1) In the late 70&apos;s I built several of original IMSAI kits... and learned what happens when you put the caps in the wrong way. &nbsp;2) A couple of years later, I was working for a major supplier to the U.S. Air Force in Colorado Springs. They made things like hard coaxial cables used in the firing mechanisms of MIRV warheads. They provided many weird sorts of things to the Air Force but they also provided computer simulation services to the Air Force. When the movie came out the Air Force swore with a straight face that &quot;We do not own any computers like the one in the movie&quot;. Which was true-- &nbsp;as they were renting &nbsp;two Control Data Corp Cyber 70 series computers from the company I worked for, as well as the peripherals, and the programmers to create the simulations for... you guessed it... &nbsp;the real &quot;Thermonuclear War&quot; simulation . This was1980-- long before the movie came out.

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• NU

  @nukeum9535 · 4 years ago

  Love this stuff. &quot;Computers came from aliens...&quot; Those who say this, never messed with old tech.

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• TH

  @the-shork · 4 years ago

  for a second I thought you&apos;d bought the WOPR :D

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  @123mikeyd321 · 4 years ago

  Wargames and Firefox. &nbsp;I was born in &apos;73 and those films shaped my future. &nbsp;As did others but those 2 are ones I always remember. &nbsp;Great content BTW, I never miss a Dave&apos;s Garage episode.

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• SK

  @skfalpink123 · 4 years ago

  I have the Altair 8080 replica which is really nice! Just by flicking data/address switches and then executing &quot;chase the bit&quot;, it gives a really fantastic LED light show, which is a perfect backdrop for those endless MS Teams meetings!

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• RA

  @ramosel · 4 years ago

  Reminds me of the days I worked on a &quot;dark project&quot; which used a Data General Nova 3... &nbsp; We had what looked like a woman&apos;s train case that housed a cassette drive. &nbsp;The whiz kids would write code and an armed (military) guard would bring it to us on the cassette. &nbsp;We&apos;d take the train case out of a locked cage, put the tape in it, hook a 50pin twisted wire harness to the back plane, throw some switches and tape would run. &nbsp; They&apos;d call and confirm the function and we&apos;d hand the tape back to the armed guard and he&apos;d leave with it. &nbsp; Never knew exactly what the machine was doing... just had to keep it running.

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• ER

  @erniemiller1953 · 4 years ago

  My takeaway from this video is, as cool as this is, i am glad I went from a bread board to a keyboard.

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• EN

  @enilenis · 4 years ago (edited)

  Seen Altair 8800 at a space observatory in 1995. Was told that it was used to do astronomical calculations, back when it was in service. They put it into a glass display case, after it retired.

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• LO

  @LongReachAround · 4 years ago

  Dave. I was so absorbed in computers when this came out and this just became cement. I am not one to get jealous but I am feeling both jealousy and nostalgia.

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• JE

  @JessicaFEREM · 4 years ago

  ha they really said &quot;fine I&apos;ll make it myself&quot; and actually followed through with it

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