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Look back in ASCII[^]. I was reading this earlier today, frequently muttering to myself "Ah yes, I remember it well." with an occasional "I owned one of those.". Until I got to the last page, that is. The very bottom of the last page. The Exidy Sorceror? :wtf: Never heard of it and back in the day I devoured most of the computing press. I'm not infallible, of course, and it might have escaped my attention at the time or I could have forgotten it. Anyone remember it?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
Henry Minute wrote:
The Exidy Sorceror?
Yeah, I vaguely remember looking at one once. Marc
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Look back in ASCII[^]. I was reading this earlier today, frequently muttering to myself "Ah yes, I remember it well." with an occasional "I owned one of those.". Until I got to the last page, that is. The very bottom of the last page. The Exidy Sorceror? :wtf: Never heard of it and back in the day I devoured most of the computing press. I'm not infallible, of course, and it might have escaped my attention at the time or I could have forgotten it. Anyone remember it?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
I remember the Sorceror very well from ads. It disappeared like many others as more and more companies tried to sell their next new machines. I think the Sorceror belongs more in the time from 1977 - 1980 when the short era of the self built computers and kits ended. Does anybody remember the Heathkit H8? :) Anyway, when I look at my old computer, which also was a kit, I still am glad to have experienced at least the end of that time.
At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity
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Look back in ASCII[^]. I was reading this earlier today, frequently muttering to myself "Ah yes, I remember it well." with an occasional "I owned one of those.". Until I got to the last page, that is. The very bottom of the last page. The Exidy Sorceror? :wtf: Never heard of it and back in the day I devoured most of the computing press. I'm not infallible, of course, and it might have escaped my attention at the time or I could have forgotten it. Anyone remember it?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
Always really wanted one of these[^]. Never got one though, but through the years have created similar.
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Henry Minute wrote:
it might have escaped my attention at the time
There were a lot[^] of distractions[^] going on then[^].
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
I have all of those on my MP3 player.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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I have all of those on my MP3 player.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
Henry Minute wrote:
I have all of those on my MP3 player portable gramophone.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Look back in ASCII[^]. I was reading this earlier today, frequently muttering to myself "Ah yes, I remember it well." with an occasional "I owned one of those.". Until I got to the last page, that is. The very bottom of the last page. The Exidy Sorceror? :wtf: Never heard of it and back in the day I devoured most of the computing press. I'm not infallible, of course, and it might have escaped my attention at the time or I could have forgotten it. Anyone remember it?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
Well a poke around and found it was a Z80 like most of the (European) machines at that time (the BBC being an exception!) From what I read was imported from Europe didn't sell disappeared! (never heard that before, I am a little unsure of the switch at the front after market mod!) Glenn
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Look back in ASCII[^]. I was reading this earlier today, frequently muttering to myself "Ah yes, I remember it well." with an occasional "I owned one of those.". Until I got to the last page, that is. The very bottom of the last page. The Exidy Sorceror? :wtf: Never heard of it and back in the day I devoured most of the computing press. I'm not infallible, of course, and it might have escaped my attention at the time or I could have forgotten it. Anyone remember it?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
I am one of the few that actually owned one (The Exidy Sorceror). I bought it with money I made working summer jobs in high school. For the time, it had some very interesting features. Like the TRS-80, it didn't really have a graphics mode, but used characters to draw graphics on the screen. Unlike the TRS-80, the top 128 characters were mapped to RAM, so you could replace them at the pixel level. There were a number of games for the Sorceror that were based on arcade games, and they looked just like the arcade games because of the character set remapping. John
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Look back in ASCII[^]. I was reading this earlier today, frequently muttering to myself "Ah yes, I remember it well." with an occasional "I owned one of those.". Until I got to the last page, that is. The very bottom of the last page. The Exidy Sorceror? :wtf: Never heard of it and back in the day I devoured most of the computing press. I'm not infallible, of course, and it might have escaped my attention at the time or I could have forgotten it. Anyone remember it?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
The author of the piece was one Chistopher H Bidmead[^]. A well respected chap in the Whoniverse.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live
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Henry Minute wrote:
I have all of those on my MP3 player portable gramophone.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
No, silly. The gramophone was buried with her.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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I am one of the few that actually owned one (The Exidy Sorceror). I bought it with money I made working summer jobs in high school. For the time, it had some very interesting features. Like the TRS-80, it didn't really have a graphics mode, but used characters to draw graphics on the screen. Unlike the TRS-80, the top 128 characters were mapped to RAM, so you could replace them at the pixel level. There were a number of games for the Sorceror that were based on arcade games, and they looked just like the arcade games because of the character set remapping. John
Interesting. Thanks.:thumbsup:
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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The author of the piece was one Chistopher H Bidmead[^]. A well respected chap in the Whoniverse.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live
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